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хохма

Borrowed from Yiddish חכמה (khokhme, “wit”), from Hebrew חוכמה (khokhmá, “wisdom”). A well-known folk etymology relates the noun to хохотать (xoxotatʹ, “to laugh”).

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c. 1910Modern Hebrew

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