{"id":17848,"date":"2019-02-24T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17848"},"modified":"2019-02-24T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:34:02","slug":"medakdek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/24\/medakdek\/","title":{"rendered":"medakdek"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I just came across the word <i>medakdek<\/i> (which is also spelled <i>medakdeik<\/i> and <i>m'dakdeik<\/i>), a Hebrew word (\u05de\u05d3\u05e7\u05d3\u05e7) that <a href=\"https:\/\/jel.jewish-languages.org\/words\/354\">means something like<\/a> precise or exact or careful. I infer that in <I>yeshivish<\/i> (heavily jargonized English as used at US yeshivas and among their alumni) there is a connotation of fussiness, of being overly picky about details, but that may not be how it is generally used.\r\n<p>I just like the sound of the word: <i>medakdek<\/i>. \r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17863,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions\/17863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}