Pronounced: NETS-kay, noun
Notes: The pronunciation was not at all what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word macher is
- a person of influence; one who gets things done
- a self-important overbearing person
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1910s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I didn’t know what our word meant, but I thought it looked like “maker”… as it turns out, our word came from the Yiddish word makher, which came from the German word macher (maker; doer).
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