Tsuris
/tsʊɹɪs/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Problems or troubles. English, Jewish, US, colloquial, uncountable
"You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah^([sic]). It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris."
- 2 (Yiddish) aggravating trouble wordnet
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More examples"You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah^([sic]). It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris."
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish צרות (tsores), plural of צרה (tsore, “trouble, problem”), from Hebrew צָרָה (tsará, “trouble, tragedy, calamity”).