Meaning of peot | Babel Free

Definitions

Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.”

“'Manny? Sweet? Manny doesn't do sweet.' 'Every man does sweet, Max. Even weird ones with payess.'”

“He showed me the items in his den, or “trophy room” — the cardboard cutout of Sinatra wearing Jewish payos, the portrait of King made entirely of jelly beans, his Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.”

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