Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Yiddish ·1910s
Tuchus
from תּחת (tukhes)
- Meaning
- Buttocks, rear end.
- Source word
- תּחת (tukhes)
- Route into English
- Yiddish *tukhes* (from Hebrew *taḥat*, under, beneath) → English in American Jewish speech by the 1910s. Usually a softer euphemism than English equivalents.
- Arrived
- 1910s
From Yiddish
Mass migration from Ashkenazi Eastern Europe to New York (1880–1920) funnelled Yiddish into American English, from where it diffused globally.
English borrows.
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