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1. blackhatwannabe
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   What does it mean to be "shpitz" for a guy? What does the term "shpitz yeshivish" mean?

   Posted 8 months ago #

2. WIY
   Member

   thanks

   Posted 8 months ago #

3. sam4321
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   tip,or top of ,like shpitz yeshivish = very yeshivish. Hard to explain but means top of the line.

   Posted 8 months ago #

4. interjection
   Member

   it means cool. usually that he spends all day in the bais but dresses to the nines.

   Posted 8 months ago #

5. WIY
   Member

   I second sam
   Shpitz means to the utmost extent an embodiment of the thing totally it.

   Posted 8 months ago #

6. Curiosity
   Not a cat person

   I always suspected it comes from the Hebrew word "Shpeetz" - meaning the sharp corner point of a needle or blade. The apex, if you will.

   Posted 8 months ago #

7. The Chassidishe Gatesheader
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   @Curiosity - that isn't a Hebrew word, it's a German/Yiddish word.

   Posted 8 months ago #

8. Shopping613
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   Are you sure you don't mean spetz? Its to know a lot of something ussually perfectly....

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9. Toi
   beware the cleats

   shpitz is a yiidish word. it means the point, as in the point of a nail. shpitzy means pointy; in yiddish its shpitzig. it is used in the vernacular to mean the pinnacle of something. so shpitz yeshivish means the pinnacle of yeshivish. but its not reall the teich. i heard a RY make a machaah on "shpitzig' shich", the ones commonly worn by yeshiva bochurim.

   Posted 8 months ago #

10. Curiosity
    Not a cat person

    I guess that's why I couldn't find it in the Hebrew-English dictionary I was using.. It's made its way into modern Hebrew so seamlessly that I honestly thought it had Hebrew roots. It's surely listed in newer Hebrew dictionaries.

    Posted 8 months ago #

11. The_Cool_Jew
    '=Moishy'

    Shpitz = typical

    Posted 8 months ago #

12. YehudahTzvi
    Descendant of Aminodov

    Shpitz in German means a high point like the top of a mountain. I know this because it is my family name.

    Posted 8 months ago #

13. equeen
    Member

    OK...so can someone tell me why a SHPITZEL is called a SHPITZEL As in the ultra orthodox holier than thou head covering?

    Posted 8 months ago #

14. YehudahTzvi
    Descendant of Aminodov

    Again, probably because it's on top (high point) of the head.

    Posted 8 months ago #

15. Toi
    beware the cleats

    maybe cuz its pointy like a football.

    Posted 8 months ago #

16. smartcookie
    Member

    A shpitzel covers the whole head- with not Sheitel underneath.

    A hat is supposed to cover a big part of the sheitel- so only the front and back should be seen. The style now- where the hat barely lies on top of the head, defeats the purpose of wearing one.

    Posted 8 months ago #

17. uneeq
    Ironically, redundant subtitles can be redundantly ironic.

    In Chevron Yeshiva, they call the top notch learners, "shpitz". This usually amounts to like 3-5 guys out of 1200 students.

    Posted 8 months ago #

18. Showjoe
    Member

    shpitz means (i think) the epitome

    Posted 8 months ago #

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