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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--shtick This week's theme: words from Yiddish. shtick or schtick or schtik (shtik) noun 1. A performer's routine or gimmick. 2. One's special trait, interest, or talent. [From Yiddish shtik (pranks, gimmick, routine, literally piece), from German Stück (piece).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "The trio, whose shtick is to give a 1940s swing treatment to modern hits, do amazing things to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights." Caroline Sullivan; Wireless Festival; The Guardian (London, UK); Jun 26, 2006. X-Bonus A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- )

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