One word

Haimish

Word of the day on 18 May 2010.

Winning tweet

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Haimish where the heart ish.

Good uses

  • emmaexpress
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    Haimish: wherever I lay my hat-ish.
  • mazpow
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    More haimish than glamorous, youth wasn't all it was cracked up to be for me. But middle age is my bailiwick!
  • Squawkingalah
    66
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    I'm participating in this haimish thing but my hearth is not in it.
  • Tralala56
    63
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    The only time that Madge ever looks haimish is when she's cooking, but even then she cuts her vegetables using a knife in both hands!
  • TheSupercargo
    61
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    The Haimish manoeuvre: technique for dislodging teenagers stuck in the parental home.
  • TiddK
    60
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    I'll see your haimish, and I'll raise you 3 plump cushions, some fresh bread, a few hens, and five children to play in the yard
  • kado56
    59
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    Misogynists Society of Scotland Beauty Contest rules: Contestants must be sound in wind & limb, haimish, frugal and/or rich.
  • marcosarroyos
    57
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    Despite having turned into an insect, Gregor still thought his room was haimish.
  • silverne
    57
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    Coffee/ French black chocolate/ Cuban cigarillos/ Dostoyevsky/ Haimish
  • selkie_upsilon
    55
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    I have cake, I have tea. I have a view that looks out to the trees. Do you have a haimish hug for me? xx #artwiculate
  • JonPowles
    55
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    In Scotland, Haimish McRichard, haggis smuggler. In Australia, Homely Dick the wholesale meat merchant. We all know him.
  • SJHatzi
    54
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    I'm such a schmuck! All this kibitzing about haimish is making this goy all schmaltzy.
  • agezoko
    54
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    A Haimish wife. Quiet and peaceful love. #artwiculate
  • graffitipoet
    53
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    The haimish house upon the hill/Among the apple grove/With hand in hand, and steps in time/Around the grounds we rove
  • nedmw
    53
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    Checked into the Haimish Hotel. Sounded great - loved the name. But it's called that because all you want to do is go home
  • baccatum
    52
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    I find the decor at the Hospital Cardiology Department so haimish. After all, home is where the heart is.
  • arkadeep2008
    51
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    A haimish person is one who simple and open (i.e. he doesn't pretend to be what he isn't). #artwiculate
  • lithiumzombie
    50
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    "Is this our room? Not very haimish." / "I'll say! Good thing I brought the inflatable inglenook."
  • Wifsie
    50
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    Pure haimish joy: to know who I am and to know that it's enough. #artwiculate
  • AaronLivingston
    50
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    Haimish? Dare I say it? I feel right at home with this one...#artwiculate
  • OddlyStarry
    49
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    Fond haimish memories warm the traveler's soul, as he sits shivering in his broken time machine on a wind-whipped Ice Age tundra.
  • K_Geddings
    49
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    I guess you could say I have a haimish education...I was home schooled.
  • silversteelwolf
    48
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    She was brainish, Danish, and so far from haimish that when the two trysted, the outcome was plain...ish.
  • yearning4d_sky
    47
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    From the haimish to the horrific ~ from the calmness to the madness~ life swings both extremes #artwiculate
  • dmriver
    45
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    Haimish me, haimish you. It's the best I can do.
  • minibtweet
    44
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    Playing Artwiculate everyday I found a haimish atmosphere where everyone has a part to play teaching or learning WOTD
  • dsceiorg
    43
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    Grandmother's comment / "Such a haimish apartment, / Who decorated?" #haiku #artwiculate
  • BurningHawk1969
    43
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    Haimish Barbie comes with hand-made quilt and china tea set, and sings a homey tune. #artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
    42
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    a house is not haimish when there's no one there to hold you tight, and no one there you can kiss good night
  • OldJoeStalin
    42
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    The psychiatrist didn't want his office to be too haimish. He wanted his patients out of there after their 50 minute hour.
  • asim7asim
    41
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    abandon my home ~ to seek after love ~ haimish enough #haiku #artwiculate
  • tama001
    40
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    fleeting morning coffee & Artwiculate / I stir myself and go to work / bye, my haimish time. #artwiculate
  • ariandalen
    40
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    A smile, a twinkle in the eye, a deep belly laugh, these make even the haimish beautiful. #artwiculate
  • Lomnoir
    39
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    Roses are red/ Violets are blue/ He was haimish/ So she said, "Eww!"
  • sia_ky
    38
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    The restless children/ gather in a haimish room/ that smells of cookies. #artwiculate, 'haimish'
  • TinaNguyen
    37
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    Having coffee talk in this haimish little place is making me get all verklempt. #artwiculate
  • DaveCurry
    37
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    Haimish government cabinet? Department of Homelyland Security. #artwiculate
  • symphonist
    36
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    Off to work I go/ planning my timely return/ to haimish repose #haiku #artwiculate
  • MaxRaunchiness
    36
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    Whaddaya mean, you don't like the doily on my manhood? I was just trying to make it haimish for us. Geez!
  • eilonwya10
    35
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    If each evening feels the same-ish, perhaps you've become to haimish. There's a thin line between cozy and dozy. #artwiculate
  • Awdures
    34
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    My little house is haimish, toys everywhere jobs to be done, but somewhere I can rest easily #artwiculate
  • InVinceWil
    33
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    She saw the pizza delivery guy, changed out of her haimish house-dress and asked him to come in for a slice. #shortstory
  • LStephenCleary
    33
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    My brother-in-law got a chicken bone stuck in his throat luckily I learned the Haimish maneuver in college.
  • beezknez
    33
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    The haimish seem a / careful lot when it comes to / opening their doors / #haiku #haikuchallenge #artwiculate 'haimish' 'careful'
  • lawyergirl3
    32
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    Ms Haimish, the prosecutor, wowed the jury with twisted rope analogy that made the case fit like a glove.
  • Krafti_kit
    31
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    Oy vey! Feel haimish with a big bowl of Matzo Ball Soup. And it wouldn't hurt to call your mother once in a while! #artwiculate
  • DonnaFaz
    31
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    Haimish slippers are the best--warm, fuzzy, and ultra-comfortable. #artwiculate
  • Lorcdy
    31
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    Vat kind of yold would make haimish WOTD?
  • yuvsways
    31
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    all the world is haimish to the one who is humble, benign, truthful and caring !! #artwiculate

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