tsuris

or tsour·is, tzur·is

[ tsoor-is, tsur- ]

noun

, Slang.

1. trouble; woe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tsuris¹

1970–75; < Yiddish tsures, tsores, plural of tsure, tsore < Hebrew ṣarā, plural ṣarōth troubles

Example Sentences

While all of this is taking place in dreamlike fashion, there’s a lot of other mishigas and tsuris to get through.

From Los Angeles Times

“He’s got trouble with his kids, he’s got tsuris with his wife,” she went on, using the Yiddish word for “trouble,” “his mother’s a pain, we all could relate.”

From New York Times

He did, after all, close his own label with very little tsuris after he landed the bigger jobs, swapping independence for the corporate superstructure of power, budgets and reach.

From New York Times

Now there’s a recipe for tsuris, the surest.

From Salon

“No tsuris, no plotzing for us,” began the death notice, which ran in The Post earlier this week.

From Washington Post