Pronounced: HAY-mish (alt: HI-mish), adj
Notes: Also spelled heimish or haimish
Yesterday’s word
The word lamster is “a fugitive; especially one from the law”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1900s (1900-1910)
Background / Comments
I should have figured out our word, as I’m familiar with the phrase “on the lam” for a guy running away from the law. Even though the nouns lam and lamster are relatively new, there is a verb lam that goes back to the 1500s and means “to beat soundly; to strike or thrash”.
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