peot

English

Alternative forms

• payess, payiss, payos, payot, payoth, peos, peyiss

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew פּאות (pe'ot) or Yiddish פּאות (peyes).

Noun

peot pl (plural only)

1. Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

   Hypernym: sidelocks

   • 1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18:

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

   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights:

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

   • 2015 August 29, Mark Leibovich, The New York Times:

     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.

Translations

sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews

• Czech: pejzy (cs)
• French: papillote (fr)
• German: Schläfenlocken (de) f pl
• Hebrew: פֵּאָה (he) f (pe'á)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: פֶּאַה f

• Polish: pejs (pl) m inan (usually plural)
• Russian: пе́йсы m pl (péjsy) (usually plural)
• Turkish: peyot, peyes
• Ukrainian: пе́йси (péjsy) (usually plural)
• Yiddish: פּאה f (peye)