yekke

See also: Yekke and yəkkə

English

Etymology

From Yiddish יעקע (yeke). See Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛkə/, /ˈjɛki/

Noun

yekke (plural yekkes)

  1. (sometimes mildly derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yekke.
    • 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 149:
      “No harm has been done,” he says, his supple Yiddish fitted with a stiffening wire of the German accent to which he and his fellow yekkes, even after sixty years, stubbornly cling.
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