Yidish words you need to know to impress your Jewish friend
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Yidish words for the Entertainment Industry and other special occasions...
Larry David "shmuck always follows the word poor"
Shmuck: Smudork, jerk - a dull stupid fatuous perso
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"Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one." - Mel Brooks
Not a good sign...
If somedy tells you that your movie is "drek",that's probably not the best sign dreck : (vulgar) worthless "crap"
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Chutzpah...a word with many meanings
One example given of the ultimate of chutzpah is: "A boy, having just been convicted of murdering his parents, begs the judge for leniency because he is an orphan
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...and I thought I have seen it all. Jewish rappers called "chutzpah"
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Chutzpah, World's First Ever Jewish Hip Hop Supergroup, makes appearance on Good Day New York just before the holidays and make the television debut on their single, "Chanukah's da Bomb"...with the trafiic lady, the anchors, and the producer all dancing along! And that's not to mention the Chinese Acrobats, the life size puppets and the puppies!
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Bubkes
Bubkes (also spelled "bupkis") - emphatically nothing, as in "He isn't worth bubkes"
One of my favorites words...Shpilkes!!
Shpilkes - nervous energy; to be feeling "antsy", to be "sitting on pins and needles." From Seinfled (not Yidish but close)
Shiksappeal - someone who is appealing, but non-Jewish; a play on the Yiddish word shiksa.
Chinese Yiddish!
These two Jewish men are sitting in a wonderful deli frequented almost exclusively by Jews in the Jewish section of town.They are talking amongst themselves in Yiddish. A Chinese waiter comes up and in fluent impeccable Yiddish asks them if everything is okay, can he get them anything, and so forth.
The Jewish men are dumbfounded. "My God, where did he learn such perfect Yiddish?" they both think.
After they pay the bill they ask the manager of the store, an old friend also fluent in Yiddish, "Where did our waiter learn such fabulous Yiddish?"
The owner looks around and leans in so no one else will hear and says, "Shhhh. He thinks we're teaching him English."
From Mel Brooks
Indian Chief: Hus du gezen in deine leiben, they darker than us. Woof!(In Yiddish this means: Have you ever seen anything like this in your life?)
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"shlemazel"
Rabbi Benjamin Blech defines a "shlemazel"as someone
"so unlucky that his junk mail arrives 'postage due.'"
...Some yidish from from Crusty the clown
Yiddish expressions, usually voiced by Krusty, abound: tucchus (butt) and yutz (empty head), plotz (burst), bupkes (nothing), ferkakteh (execrable), schlemiel (bungler), and schmutz (mess). The clown refers to his long-lost daughter as "my lucky little hamentaschen," a reference to triangular pastry eaten on the holiday of Purim. Other Yiddish words and puns and double entendres also pop up. Springfield's miniature golf course is sometimes (but not always) called "Sir Putts-a-Lot." The Yiddish word putz means penis. Krusty's middle name is "Schmoikel," which sounds like the diminutive of another Yiddish term for penis. bubbe
It means Grandmother, and bobeshi is the more affectionate form. Bubele is a similarly affectionate word, though it isn't in Yiddish dictionaries.
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Klezmer (from Yiddish Klei - instrument and zemer - song; etymologically from Hebrew k'li zemer, "musical instrument") is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular (non-liturgi...
"talye" (waist)
Groucho Marx, addressing a country club that would not admit his "zun" (son) said,
"Since my little boy is only half-Jewish, would it be all right if he went into the pool only up to his waist?"
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