Meanings
plural shvartzers
- USalternativeethnicoffensiveslurAlternative form of shvartze (masculine)
You go to Israel and you come back looking like a shvartzer and talking like Hitler.
2011, Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer, New York: Bloomsbury, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 2491 more example
I liked the secret disgrace of running with shvartzers, of having forbidden friends, if that’s what you want to call them.
1991, Steve Stern, chapter 7, in Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground, New York: Ticknor & Fields, pages 123–124
- USalternativeethnicnot comparableoffensiveslurAlternative form of shvartze (masculine)
The store’s right in the heart of the shvartzer area.
1971, Victor Wartofsky, Meeting the Pieman, New York: John Day, Chapter , p. 21
Origin
- Yiddishשוואַרצער
- Englishshvartzer
Borrowed from Yiddish שוואַרצער (shvartser), nominative masculine singular form of שוואַרץ (shvarts, “black”).
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