Favorite Yiddish words commonly heard in the English language

[LoneGunman]

I really do like: "Gey Kakken off in yam"

= "go shit in the sea"

 

[blackrock13]

= "go shit in the sea"

Is that like pissing in the wind?

 

[Perry Mason]

Is that like pissing in the wind?

Yes... except it is brown rather than yellow!

Perry

 

[moresex4me]

I thought a schmuck was the part of the penis that gets tossed after the briss? Purely apocryphal, someone told me that years ago.

I too did not know that touchas (or however you would spell it in English) was yiddish.

 

[Mia.Colpa]

In my younger days in high school I used to see a lot of Jewish girls, every time I would take my pants off to have sex they would call me a shvartza and start giggling, I didn't care as I was always horny and just wanted to get laid bad, lol. I don't know how to spell it, I'm just typing as I pronounce. What does that mean?

How about the most famous yiddish word of all, oh vay, lol, I use to hear that from all the older Jewish ladies all the time.

 

[diehard]

Three of my favorites:

schvitz - to sweat, or take a sauna;

As in - it's like a sauna in here I am really starting to schvitz.

or

Since we are at the gym why not go for a schvitz?


LG

Because of its Germanic origin, many words sound German.

Schwitz = sweat

Auschwitz = from our sweat.

 

[LoneGunman]

In my younger days in high school I used to see a lot of Jewish girls, every time I would take my pants off to have sex they would call me a shvartza and start giggling, I didn't care as I was always horny and just wanted to get laid bad, lol. I don't know how to spell it, I'm just typing as I pronounce. What does that mean?

Yikes.... not good not a joke. Not a favorite word at all. In German it means black - its can also be a derogatory term for black people - equivelant of the n word. Not nice at all. Could be a sterotype reference to the size of your manhood as well.

LG

 

[Mia.Colpa]

Yikes.... not good not a joke. Not a favorite word at all. In German it means black - its can also be a derogatory term for black people - equivelant of the n word. Not nice at all. Could be a sterotype reference to the size of your manhood as well.

LG

Oh shit, well I'm not black, so I guess it's option 2, lol.

Good thing I don't use that word then.

 

[LoneGunman]

Oh shit, well I'm not black, so I guess it's option 2, lol.

Good thing I don't use that word then.

Good idea! Not knowing the meaning of the word is not a good reason to get the crap kicked out of you.

LG

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Shyster = Lawyer


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sheister

 

[DATYdude]

I like the phrase "hakken a chaynek" which means literally to "bang a kettle" i.e. to irritate someone, as in

"that Lonegunman guy is hakken me a chaynek" with his incessant prattle...

 

[LoneGunman]

I like the phrase "hakken a chaynek" which means literally to "bang a kettle" i.e. to irritate someone, as in

"that Lonegunman guy is hakken me a chaynek" with his incessant prattle...

Then my job here is done....

LG

 

[diehard]

Shyster = Lawyer


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sheister

hey, I know a quebecois by that name.

I thought it was French.

 

[gia]

TUCHAS for sure, it has such a ring to it, nice tuchas!

 

[LoneGunman]

Gia's tuchas

TUCHAS for sure, it has such a ring to it, nice tuchas!

I would like to point out that Gia does in fact have a VERY nice tuchas!

Oh... my 4:20 post... puuuuufffff...

LG

 

[Cinema Face]

Shtick - a marketing gimmick.

 

[Bopper2]

this thread has me verklempt

 

[blackrock13]

this thread has me verklempt

So now I know how to spell it.

Tonight I saw the 'How Do You like Your Coffee Crisp' commercial with the two Jewish Grammas, playing whist and talking about stuff. It must be 20 years old by now.

'Now, I should know to laugh, but you don't know from jokes.'

Next it'll be 'Where's the beef?' wanting equal time.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

Sure, however:

During many years of strict censorship on TV (or in the movies) these words seemed to always make it past the censors.

You should listen to the subliminal mumblings in old Popeye cartoons. He swears in yiddish in a lot of them.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

The censors were gentiles.