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haimish
Today in my NYTimes reading, twice, the word "haimish," which i don't recall ever seeing before.
From Wikipedia: Haimish (also Heimish): Home-like, friendly, folksy (Yiddish היימיש heymish, cf. German heimisch)
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zyzyly
2017-10-04 05:16 am (UTC)
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There is someone that calls me Haimish in Second Life, for some random reason.
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elainegrey
2017-10-04 10:38 am (UTC)
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As in a name or a description?
The word seems to follow a similar growing trend to hygge, Norwegian for cozy:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hygge%2Chaimish%2C+heimish&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Chygge%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhygge%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHygge%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Chaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cheimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bheimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHeimish%3B%2Cc0
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zyzyly
2017-10-04 07:02 pm (UTC)
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The word seems to follow a similar growing trend to hygge, Norwegian for cozy:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hygge%2Chaimish%2C+heimish&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Chygge%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhygge%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHygge%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Chaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHaimish%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cheimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bheimish%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHeimish%3B%2Cc0
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