Etymology

vitz

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Today it means: joke Full definition →

Yiddish וויץ
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The story

  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromוויץ“joke”
  2. English todayvitz

Borrowed from Yiddish וויץ (vitz, “joke”). Compare German Witz and English wit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.