noun a black person; an Indian or Pakistani person. Also seen as 'schwartz', 'schvartze' and ' schvartza'. The Yiddish term schvartz (from the German for 'black') is an adjective, with schvartzer as the noun for 'a black person'. 'Schvartz' the adjective became an inside, 'code' word among Jews for 'a black person' US, 1961