Word.ws English Dictionary

klezmerish

klezmerish adjective: resembling klezmer (Jewish folk music).

Adjective

klezmerish (comparative more klezmerish, superlative most klezmerish)

  1. (informal) Resembling klezmer (Jewish folk music).
    • The program also included “Quickstep,” a new dance for the children, which began with an oddly meandering solo for the charismatic Jeremy Summerville and included a precision-running romp for 15 other boys, to delicious klezmerish music by Steve Martland.2008 April 11, Jennifer Dunning, “Challenging Dancers, Young and Older”, in New York Times

Forms of klezmerish

comparativemore klezmerish
superlativemost klezmerish

Origin of klezmerish

From klezmer + -ish.

Questions about klezmerish

What does klezmerish mean?
Klezmerish means resembling klezmer (Jewish folk music).
What part of speech is klezmerish?
Klezmerish is an adjective.

Words near klezmerish in the dictionary

  1. klewang
  2. Klexter
  3. Klexters
  4. klezmer
  5. klezmer-like
  6. klezmerish
  7. klezmerlike
  8. klezmers
  9. klezmorim
  10. KLF
  11. KLFA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: klezmerish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “klezmerish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/klezmerish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.