schtik
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(Yiddish) a little; a piece
give him a shtik cake
Types & categories
- small indefinite quantity hypernym
- shtikl hyponym
Related & opposite
- Yiddish domain topic
Sense 2 noun
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
play it straight with no shtik
Types & categories
- stage business hypernym
Related & opposite
- Yiddish domain topic
Sense 3 noun
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
his shtik made us laugh
Types & categories
- prank hypernym
Related & opposite
- Yiddish domain topic
Sense 4 noun
(Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?
Types & categories
- trick hypernym
Related & opposite
- Yiddish domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Yiddish |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | small indefinite quantity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shtikl |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Yiddish |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | stage business |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Yiddish |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | prank |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Yiddish |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | trick |