This week's theme
Words borrowed from Yiddish

This week's words
luftmensch
pisher
ganef
macher
kibitzer

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(MAHKH-uhr)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A person of influence, one who gets things done.
2. A self-important overbearing person.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Yiddish makher, from German macher (maker or doer). Earliest documented use: 1911.

USAGE:

"They weren't all his ideas, but he -- he, Andrew Cuomo -- was the macher who'd do it."
Scott Raab; The Perfect Prince of Cool; Esquire (New York); Nov 2000.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: