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pritzim

pritzim is the plural of poritz.

Meaning of poritz

Noun

poritz (plural pritzim)

  1. (derogatory, historical) A wealthy landowner who controls a shtetl.
    • The Pritzim in their great houses, and the peasants behind their great palings, alike sulked under the burden of debts.1909, Israel Zangwill, Ghetto Comedies, page 336

Questions about pritzim

What is pritzim the plural of?
Pritzim is the plural of poritz.

Words near pritzim in the dictionary

  1. prittle-prattles
  2. Prittlewell
  3. pritty
  4. Pritula
  5. pritumumab
  6. pritzim
  7. Pritzker
  8. Pritzkers
  9. priuely
  10. Prius
  11. Priuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pritzim (page history and authors); poritz (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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