Definitions

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  • noun a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics

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Examples

  • But it does get a disapproving mensh on Pickled Politics, though:

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • But a reading of the story that I hadn't heard several times before came from a sermon preached by a Reform rabbi, a great preacher and a real mensh, with whom my Unitarian Universalist congregation had a wonderful relationship.

    In Abraham's Shoes Without A Bible James F. McGrath 2009

  • O sgwenu am Y Byd, dwi wedi llwyddo i gael mensh ym mlog Vaughan Roderick - a hynny o fewn wythnos o fentro i fyd y blog.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Dyfrig 2008

  • O sgwenu am Y Byd, dwi wedi llwyddo i gael mensh ym mlog Vaughan Roderick - a hynny o fewn wythnos o fentro i fyd y blog.

    Comics plant mawr Dyfrig 2008

  • He depicts Bill as acting like a mensh, responding with "warm words, letting the hurts of the primary be bygones."

    Carol Felsenthal: Is Obama Following Gore and Kerry and Keeping His Distance from Bill Clinton? 2008

  • ORIGIN 1930s: Yiddish mensh, from German Mensch, literally ‘person.’

    "Gloves come off: Mitt has 'choice' words for Giuliani." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Double the usual number of visitors yesterday, following the mensh in the Lebrecht column, so here's a meaty topic to consider, something about which I have a considerable bee in the bonnet.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Jessica 2006

  • They get their leads from tips sent in by readers and I have just had an hon mensh (as Private Eye puts it) which is an honour indeed!

    Archive 2004-08-01 Jonathan 2004

  • They get their leads from tips sent in by readers and I have just had an hon mensh (as Private Eye puts it) which is an honour indeed!

    Fame! Jonathan 2004

  • Double the usual number of visitors yesterday, following the mensh in the Lebrecht column, so here's a meaty topic to consider, something about which I have a considerable bee in the bonnet.

    It ain't what you've got... Jessica 2006

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