mensch \mench\, noun:
A decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
It's easy to be a mensch, his dad says. You honor your father and mother. You stay married, you set your kids a good example, you don't lie or cheat or steal. And every once in a while, Cookie, you gotta pick up the check, his father says, then winks.
-- Jane VanDenburgh, Physics of Sunset
Thanks ladies. I love words too. The more obscure the better.. But I do truly enjoy a new meaning for a word I thought I was
well acquainted with...