Sheitel
//ˈʃaɪtəl// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A wig worn by married Orthodox Jewish women. Judaism
"I keep wanting to put her in a sheitel, the wig that every Orthodox Jewish wife is supposed to wear in order to prevent a man not her husband from lusting after her in his heart."
- 2 A wig (of any kind). Polari
"Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel."
Example
More examples"I keep wanting to put her in a sheitel, the wig that every Orthodox Jewish wife is supposed to wear in order to prevent a man not her husband from lusting after her in his heart."
Etymology
From Yiddish שייטל (sheytl), cognate to German Scheitel (“parting”).
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