shvitz

English

Alternative forms

schvitz
schwitz

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן‎ (shvitsn), from Old High German sweizzen, swizzen (Modern German Schweiß, schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃvɪts/

Noun

shvitz (countable and uncountable, plural shvitzes)

Sweat.
A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.

Translations

sweat — see sweat

steam bath

Yiddish: שוויצבאָד‎ f (shvitsbod)

Verb

shvitz (third-person singular simple present shvitzes, present participle shvitzing, simple past and past participle shvitzed)

(intransitive) To sweat.
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
  Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.