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alrightnik
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a successful person
nouveau riche
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alter kocker
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old fart
washed up
over the hill
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bagel
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ring-shaped bread made by boiling then baking the dough
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baleboste
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a good housewife
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beytsim
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testicles
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bissel
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a little bit
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blintz
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a sweet cheese-filled crepe
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boychick
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boy, young man
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bris
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male circumcision ceremony
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bubba miseh
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a long story
an old wives tale
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bubbe
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grandma
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bubelah
|
sweet heart
dear
sweetie
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bubkes
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absolutely nothing
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buszhie
|
concotion
mixture
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chazzer
|
messy eater
gutton
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chutzpah
|
balls
nerve
guts
gall
audacity
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dreck
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crap
shit
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eytze
|
advice
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fagele
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a homosexual man
a little bird
a young girl
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farpotshket
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broken, because someone tried to fix it
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farshnickert
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drunk
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farshtunken
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stinky
smelly
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feh!
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ugh!
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fleishig
|
food containing meat
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fleysh
|
meat
flesh
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furshlugginer
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crazy
wacky
beat-up
batter
junk
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ganef
|
thief
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gantse macher
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Man about town, big shot
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gatkes
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long underwear
longjohns
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gay kocken offen yom
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"Go poop in the ocean"
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gelt
|
money
chocolate coins eaten on Hanukkah
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geschrei
|
cry, yell, scream
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glitch
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a minor malfunction
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golem
|
an android
a man-made humanoid
Frankenstein
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gornisht
|
nothing
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gornisht helfn
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beyond help
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goy
|
gentile
someone not of the Jewish faith
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goyim
|
gentiles
non-Jews
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haimish
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homelike
folksy
warm and comfortable
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hock
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to bother or nag
to break
to haggle
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hocker
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a person who gossips, is annoyingly socially ambitious
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jeshiva bucher
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a young man
skinny or ill-looking
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kaputt
|
broken
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kibitz
|
giving unwanted advice
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kileh
|
hernia
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kish'm tuchas
|
kiss my butt
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kishkas
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guts, intestines
a type of sausage
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klutz
|
clumsy person
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kneidlach
|
matzo balls
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kosher
|
good, cool, legitimate
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kvetsh
|
to complain excessively
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landsman
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someone from your same town
a fellow Jew
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latke
|
potato pancake
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lokshen kugel
|
noodle pudding
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lox
|
cured salmon
smoked salmon
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luch in kop
|
hole in the head
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macher
|
big shot
an important person
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mame loshn
|
mother tongue
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mamzer
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bastard
illegitimate child
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maven
|
expert
know-it-all
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mazel tov
|
congratulations
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mechuleh
|
bankrupt
gone bust
finished unsuccessfully
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megillah
|
a lengthy, detailed, tedious document
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mensch
|
a good person
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mentschlekhkeyt
|
the qualities of a person which make them a mensch
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meshugener
|
a crazy person
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milchig
|
made with milk
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minyan
|
quorum of ten acceptable men needed for public worship
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mishegas
|
crazy
crazyness
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mishpocheh
|
family
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naches
|
joy
pride
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narrischkeit
|
foolishness
nonsense
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nebbish
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a pitiful person
a nobody
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nebech
|
useless
inept
harmless and pitiable man
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noodge
|
to annoy or both with constant requests, complaints, or urgings
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nosh
|
to eat lightly or snack
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nu
|
huh
so what
well
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nudnik
|
a pest, pain, or bore
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oy gevalt
|
exclamation of shock or fear
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oy vey
|
exclamation of negativity or woe
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oysgeputst
|
dressed up
flamboyantly dress
over-embelleshed
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pareve
|
containing neither milk nor meat
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pisher
|
a nobody or inexperience person
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plotz
|
to burst or explode emotionally in aggravation
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potch
|
slap
spank
smack
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potrzebie
|
no real meaning
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putz
|
idiot or jerk
a penis
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schav
|
a chilled soup
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schlep
|
to drag
to haul laboriously
to carry burdensomely
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schlock
|
cheap
of poor quality
shoddy
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schlong
|
penis
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schlub
|
a stupid, unattractive, clumsy person
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schmaltzy
|
excessively sentimental
corny
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schmatta
|
a rag
low-quality
junk
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schmeer
|
to spread
a spread
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schmo
|
a stupid person
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schmuck
|
a fool
a penis (vulgar)
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schmutter
|
rubbish
|
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schnook
|
a person who is gullible or easily cheated
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schnorrer
|
beggar
freeloader
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schnoz
|
nose
big nose
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schvartze
|
a black person
African-American
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schvitz
|
to sweat
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shabbos
|
sabbath
shabbat
|
|
shamus
|
private detective
|
|
shegetz
|
young non-Jewish male
|
|
shemozzle
|
quarrel
brawl
raucous confusion
|
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shickered
|
drunk
|
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shiddach
|
matchmaking
|
|
shikse
|
young, non-Jewish woman
|
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shlemiel
|
a clumsy, inept person
|
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shlimazel
|
a consistently unlucky person
|
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shmendrik
|
a jerk
a stupid fool
|
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shmooze
|
to make small talk, to chat, or idly converse
|
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shmutz
|
a little dirty or dirt
|
|
shtick
|
a gimmick or defining habit
|
|
shtup
|
to push or poke
to have sexual intercourse (vulgar)
|
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spiel
|
a sale pitch or an otherwise (un)persuasive speech
|
|
tchatchke
|
toy
knickknack
|
|
traif
|
something not kosher
|
|
tsholnt
|
traditional stew
|
|
tsuris
|
problems
troubles
|
|
tukhus
|
butt
bottom
|
|
tummler
|
master of ceremonies
|
|
tush
|
butt
|
|
verklempt
|
chocked up with emotion
|
|
yarmulke
|
skullcap
|
|
yente
|
gossip
busybody
matchmaker
|
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Yiddish
|
the Yiddish language
|
|
yiddisher kop
|
smart person
|
|
Yinglish
|
speaking English with many Yiddish words
|
|
yontef
|
a Jewish holiday
|
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yutz
|
a stupid, clueless person
|
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zaftig
|
plump
chubby
full-figured
thick
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