shvitz
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shvitz (countable and uncountable, plural shvitzes)
- Sweat.
- A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.
- (by extension) A sauna or sauna session.
Translations edit
sweat — see sweat
steam bath
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Verb edit
shvitz (third-person singular simple present shvitzes, present participle shvitzing, simple past and past participle shvitzed)
- (intransitive, informal) To sweat.
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
- Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.