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payiss

payiss is the alternative form of peot.

Meaning of peot

Noun

peot pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.
    • With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18
    Synonyms:
    sidecurl

Questions about payiss

What is payiss the alternative form of?
Payiss is the alternative form of peot.

Words near payiss in the dictionary

  1. paying up
  2. paying with one's life
  3. payings
  4. Payinkuoleng
  5. payis
  6. payiss
  7. Paykan
  8. Paykans
  9. Paykcey
  10. Paykek
  11. payless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: payiss (page history and authors); peot (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.

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