This verb which has both a German prefix and a Slavic stem is not found in your verterbichel and means "to fall in love" with a somewhat derogatory connotation.
An acquaintance asked me about the use of חלש in Jewish English. She grew up understanding her family's usage of it to mean "cringe with embarrassment"; but friends tell her it really means "to faint with delight" (overlapping with the semantic range of "kvell"). I note that neither of these is exactly included in the definitions here. What can anyone add or clarify about the uses of this word either in Yiddish or Yinglish?
When a word, as heft here, shows two definite articles, does this mean:
1. some people use one and some another, or
2. one uses one form in certain contexts and the other one in other contexts?
