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July 10, 2012 4:31 am at 4:31 am
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Avi K
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From the Free On-Line Dictionary:
adj. Slang
Warm and comfortable; homey; folksy: “It is very gentle and sweet up here. It’s . . . sort of haimish” (Janet Malcolm).
[Yiddish heymish, from Middle High German heimisch, from Old High German heimisc, from heim, home; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]