A very poor and distant relation, for when he was sent over to meet his Manchester mishpocheh it was in the capacity of driver for one of the junior directors.
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha
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Etymologie
() From Yiddish משפּחה (mishpokhe), from Hebrew משפּחה (mishpakhah, “family”).