schatchen

[ Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuhn; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khahn ]

noun

, Yiddish and Hebrew.

, plural schat·cha·nim [shaht-, khaw, -nim, shaht-, kh, ah-, neem], English schat·chens.

1. shadkhan.

Example Sentences

"Schatchens don't like to fool away their time no more as I do, Gurin; and you could take it from me, no girl is going to the trouble to fix herself up and make a nice supper for you and the Schatchen simply for the pleasure of seeing a swell dresser, Gurin."

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Associated words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial. marriageability, n. nubility. marriageable, a. nubile. marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium. marrow, n. medulla, pith. marrow-bones, n. pl. knees. marry, v. wed, espouse.

From Project Gutenberg

Jewish marriage broker. schatchen. jewel, n. gem, brilliant. jewelry, n. jewels; bijoutry.

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