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TSURIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tsuris mean? 

TSURIS (noun)
  The noun TSURIS has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) aggravating troubleplay

  Familiarity information: TSURIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TSURIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) aggravating trouble

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to

Hypernyms ("tsuris" is a kind of...):

difficulty; trouble (an effort that is inconvenient)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)


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