Word.ws English Dictionary

narishkeit

narishkeit noun: foolishness.

Noun

narishkeit (uncountable)

  1. (Jewish, slang) foolishness
    • Trust me: there is NO traditional authentic Jewish PRIMARY source [Rishon or Acharon] (and I'm not referring to Rabbi Sally or Rabbi Suzy from the non-O clergy, or for that matter Rabbi Murray or Rabbi Irving from the O clergy, or even from some naarishkeit written from Aish haTorah or Artscroll...2006 April 27, bac...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
  2. (Jewish, slang) irrelevant, everyday matters

Forms of narishkeit

alternative formnaarishkeit

Origin of narishkeit

Borrowed from Yiddish נאַרישקייט (narishkeyt).

Questions about narishkeit

What does narishkeit mean?
Narishkeit means foolishness.
What part of speech is narishkeit?
Narishkeit is a noun.

Words near narishkeit in the dictionary

  1. Narinjari
  2. Nariokotome Boy
  3. narirutin
  4. naris
  5. narish
  6. narishkeit
  7. Narita
  8. nariyal
  9. nariyals
  10. Nariño
  11. nark

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: narishkeit (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: “narishkeit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/narishkeit. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.