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mensch; mensh; mench
noun
an honourable person US, 1953
German mensch (a person) into Yiddish.- As a child I often heard it said: “The finest thing you can say about a man is that he is a mensch!” — Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, p. 174, 1968
- She was what we call “mensch” in Yiddish[.] — Xaviera Hollander, The Happy Hooker, p. 79, 1972
- You’re a mensch, guy, you really are. You’re my brother. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 172, 1997
- When the hero (Ricardo Darin) is immediately revealed as a bloated, chain-smoking, workaholic deadbeat dad, we know a tragedy and/or cardiac event will transform him into a life-loving mensch. — The Village Voice, 26 March 2002
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