different between shvitz vs schvitz

English

Alternative forms

• schvitz, schwitz

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ??????? (shvitsn), from Old High German sweizzen, swizzen (Modern German Schweiß, schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?ts/

Noun

shvitz (countable and uncountable, plural shvitzes)

1. Sweat.
2. A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.

Translations

Verb

shvitz (third-person singular simple present shvitzes, present participle shvitzing, simple past and past participle shvitzed)

1. (intransitive) To sweat.
   • 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

     Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.

English

Noun

schvitz (countable and uncountable, plural schvitzes)

1. Alternative spelling of shvitz

Verb

schvitz (third-person singular simple present schvitzes, present participle schvitzing, simple past and past participle schvitzed)

1. Alternative spelling of shvitz