Meanings
plural mieskeits
- JewishslangAn ugly person.
He could remain a useful White House counselor — no mieskeit, he — but he would not be a credible Attorney General.
1984 March 30, William Safire, “The Meese Mess”, in The New York Times, page A311 more example
Then he would pretend to call to my mother who was busy in the kitchen making breakfast, to come up and see me, to look at what a mieskeit her daughter was in the morning.
2012, Fern Kupfer, chapter 4, in Leaving Long Island and other departures, Ames, IA: Culicidae Press, →ISBN, page 40
Origin
- Yiddishמיאוסקייט“an ugly person”
- Englishmieskeit
From Yiddish מיאוסקייט (mieskeyt, “an ugly person”).
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