Haimish

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 31, 2012

haimish \HEY-mish\, adjective:

Homey; cozy and unpretentious.

Now separated from Gisela Liner's home cooking and haimish evenings playing living-room soccer with Kisch, Billie consoled himself by going to the finest spots in Berlin.
-- Ed Sikov, On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

By late afternoon the house looked at least haimish, with the season's last roses cut and opening in jelly jars.
-- Sally Koslow, With Friends Like These

There were other homey touches: a mizrakh plaque on the eastern wall, a silver menorah and a sewing kit containing a colour wheel of spools on the sideboard—all made the more haimish by the savoury aromas wafting in through the kitchen door.
-- Steve Stern, The Frozen Rabbi

Haimish stems from the Yiddish word of the same spelling, which comes from the German word heimisc that literally means "pertaining to the home."

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