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shadchan

/Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuhn; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khahn/US // Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈʃɑt xən; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑtˈxɑn //UK // Yiddish (ˈʃatxən, Hebrew ʃɑdˈxɑn) //

沙德康,沙德昌,沙德克

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural shad·cha·nim [Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew shaht-khaw-nim; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khah-neem], /Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew ʃɑtˈxɔ nɪm; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑt xɑˈnim/, English shad·chans.Yiddish and Hebrew.

    • : shadkhan.

Examples

  • Many a marriageable maiden who came to view the trousseau went home to prink and blush and watch for the shadchan.

  • She even surreptitiously called in the Shadchan, or rather surrendered to his solicitations.

  • "Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought with a consolatory sense of outwitting the Shadchan.

  • "He has all the qualities that you desire," began the Shadchan, in a tone that repudiated the implications of the monosyllable.

  • She still lives with her brother and his wife; he married Sugarman the Shadchan's daughter, you know.'

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