a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Yiddish \Yid"dish\, n. [G. j["u]disch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude Jew. See Jew, Jewish.] A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. It is written in Hebrew characters. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]