badchanus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But a tone of love was felt in the badchon's reproach, the challenge of a friend, of a friend, of a true son of his people. This circumstance contributed considerably to the popularity of the badchonim and their badchonus—songs."
- "Indeed, the flowering of Yiddish theater and literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries probably owes a great deal to the persistence of badchanut—the art of the badchan."
- "He turned to pranks instead of Torah study and stared out the window instead of at the page of Talmud his father was trying to teach him. So, he was sent into badchanus. Clownery, a rare but viable career path for a Ropshitz boy."