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10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originFrom Yiddish לופֿטמענטש (luftmentsh), from לופֿט (luft, “air”) + מענטש (mentsh, “person”). Compare German von Luft und Liebe leben (“to disregard the practical matters of life”, literally “to live on air and love”), German Luftikus (“impractical, quixotic, or careless person”). The word first appeared in Yiddish literature in 1860s (Nicolas Vallois, "The Luftmentsh as an economic metaphor for…
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Words from these letters
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- mulches 14
- munches 14
- mutches 14
- flench 14
- fletch 14
- humect 13
- mensch 13
- mentch 13
- muches 13
- schtum 13