tzimmes

or tsim·mes

[ tsim-is ]

noun

1. Jewish Cooking. any of various sweetened combinations of vegetables, fruit, and sometimes meat, prepared as a casserole or stew.
2. Informal. fuss; uproar; hullabaloo:

   He made such a tzimmes over that mistake!

Word History and Origins

Origin of tzimmes¹

First recorded in 1890–95; from Yiddish tsimes, akin to dialectal German (Swabia) zimmes, zimbes “compote, stew,” Swiss German zimis “lunch”; compound (originally a prepositional phrase) of Middle High German z, ze, unstressed variant of zuo ( German zu ) “at, to” + Middle High German, Old High German imbiz, imbīz “snack, light meal” ( German Imbiss ), noun derivative of Old High German enbīzan “to take nourishment”; to, in- ¹, bite