firgun
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firgun (uncountable)
- (rare, Israel) Genuine delight or pride in another person's achievement or in something good that has happened or may happen to another person.
- Antonym: schadenfreude
- 2009 October 9, נחום, “Deep Denial - Why the Holocaust Still Matters”, in it.politica.internazionale (Usenet):
- Israelis, moreover, will not withdraw from any territory liable to become staging grounds for terrorist groups empowered by international agencies and convinced of their ability to murder Israelis with impunity. Israel will pursue policies with or without firgun.
- 2015 May 19, Greer Fay Cashman, “Grapevine: Professors didn’t do their homework”, in The Jerusalem Post:
- But firgun was certainly the name of the game when the Ambassadors Club, headed by president Yitzhak Eldan, a former Foreign Ministry chief of protocol; and vice president Yoram Naor, who is also the chairman of SICA, the Association of Central American States, organized the presentation of citations to outgoing Ambassador of El Salvador Suzana Gun de Hasenson and Vered Swid, who directs the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women in the Prime Minister’s Office.
- 2016, Michael B. Oren, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, page 111:
- But Barak was unfailingly generous in his firgun to me and genuinely interested in my interpretations of America.
- 2017 May 30, Noa Amouyal, “In Israel's Western Galilee: 'Firgun' at its best”, in The Jerusalem Post:
- This is the epitome of what Israelis call firgun, giving others a leg up and letting them bask in the glory of success.
- 2017 May 28, Dr Keith Gaynor, “Firgun: 'The emotion you probably never knew you have'”, in The Journal: IE:
- Our pro-social emotions of kindness, empathy, loyalty and firgun tied us together into couples and families, bands and tribes.