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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 trouble
Familiarity information: TSURIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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