A Yiddish slur for against a black person. Something your aging racist Jewish grandparent might say.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/40420/schvartzeRSS for NodeThu, 04 Jun 2026 16:53:14 GMTWed, 12 Apr 2017 09:32:33 GMT60

(derogatory) Yiddish term for a black woman or girl (Schvartzer for a man or boy). Not so nasty as the n word, but harsher than colored or negro in American English at the same time period (up through 1970s). Ironic also, since many Yiddish terms in Europe developed around maintaining privacy and concealing meaning from hostile non-Jewish German and Russian speakers, and many Yiddish speakers in the US through the 1960s believed black people, even the servants they employed, did not pick up on this.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/97037https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/97037Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:09:46 GMT