Guest guest Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 hi jonnie, I have a bunch of jewish/yiddish words in my head from grwoing up in manhattan. I had a jewish babysitter and some picked up from neighbors. I loved that old man, he introduced me to a lot of books between the ages of 8-12, but then he moved or I got older.. This was on 163rd st. and fort washington He sounded like a cross, between bugs bunny (pronouncing the oi, as in goils for girls and thoisday for thursday) the three stooges( the noive= the nerve) and woody allen. He is probably dead now as he was old back then, his apartment must've been a fire department hazard. cause I couldn't see a trace o walls. All his walls were covered with dusty books everywheres. (Newspapers, from thirty years ago) a real character. I think that I had selective mutism, because I remember just listening, or not assimilated yet. I believe these words are more commonplace now, as sometimes I heard them in movies and tv. probably are yiddish, or I should say Yinglish or Hebrew (not sure which), some jewish woids. basically, if you have to say schl or schm it's probably jewish. My mom still lives right next to Jeshiva Jewish University. shmuck - jerk tuchas - butt mazel tov - good fortune! babushka- head covering on a grandma chutzpah- nerve gezunheit- good health meshugene- crazy, idiot schlemazel- unlucky schlemiel - loser schlep - to carry schlump- bad posture schmaltz- sentimentality schmooze - to hang out with intimately shmutz- a low person schnook - crook schpiel - when you feed someome a story schtick - zhlub - slob yenta- cacamamie- silly klutz-clumsy , Jonnie Hellens <jonnie_hellens> wrote: > > I probably would have used other words then to describe people who stiffed me out of money. > > fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:someone who is crazy... > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2005 Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 Hi Anouk > I have a bunch of jewish/yiddish words in my head from > grwoing up in manhattan. Now that's interesting on a few: shmuck - jerk - I never knew it was an actual word. Just thought it slang. lol babushka- head covering on a grandma - means the same thing in Polish gezunheit- good health - Means the same thing in German - used as we use " god bless you " after sneezing Nikki - part Polish, have German gramma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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