yekke

See also: Yekke, and yəkkə

English

Etymology

From Yiddish יעקע (yeke). See Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛkə/, /ˈjɛki/

Noun

yekke (plural yekkes)

1. (sometimes mildly derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yekke.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 149:

     “No harm has been done,” he says, his supple Yiddish fitted with a stiffening wire of the German accent to which he and his fellow yekkes, even after sixty years, stubbornly cling.