An organ is a part of your body that performs a specific function: like your brain, lungs, or skin. You might not use the word organ often, but you use organs every second â imagine getting through a day without your heart or skin. An organ may also serve a specific function for an institution: a periodical like a newsletter can be an organ of an organization.
Click Play to hear the word Mensch Mensch is a Yiddish word meaning a person of integrity and honor Leo Rosten, author of the lexicon The Joys of Yiddish, says a mensch is a term that Jews grew up on in their childhood. â¦ Continue reading â
Chiefly British: crackers. Law: non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. 2. Informal.