What is a Mentsh?
In Yiddish, mentsh roughly means “a good person”. The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a “mensch” is a particularly good person, similar to a “stand-up guy”, a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague.
How do you use the word mensch?
She is a lucky girl to have had such a mensch for a dad, and to learn about it, perhaps later than sooner. He’s a hard worker, earnest mensch, family man, and tasteful patriot, everything you could demand of a sports hero. But Torre got more chances to manage, in large measure because he is such an unbelievable mensch.
What causes mensch?
And though the word originates from the German for “human being,” your business can and should be mensch-like too. The general attributes of a mensch are absolute integrity, steadfast reliability and unfailingly high standards of behavior and character. In other words, a very solid citizen.
What is a Mitch?
verb. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant. John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
What is the opposite of a mensch?
The opposite of a mensch is an unmensch (meaning: an utterly cruel or evil person). According to Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of The Joys of Yiddish, mensch is “someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
How do you pronounce Mench?
noun, plural mensch·en [men-chuhn], mensch·es. Informal.