What are some Yiddish slang words?
What are some Yiddish slang words?
30 Useful Yiddish Words Anyone Can Use
- Bubbe. Pronounced “buh-bee,” this Yiddish word is used to address your grandmother.
- Bupkis. The word bupkis means nothing.
- Chutzpah. Being told that you have chutzpah isn’t always a compliment.
- Goy. Quite simply, a goy is just someone who isn’t Jewish.
- Keppie.
- Klutz.
- Kvell.
- Kvetch.
What are the Shpilkes?
Noun. shpilkes pl (plural only) A state of impatience, agitation, and/or anxiety. This job interview tomorrow gives me shpilkes.
What does Haim Sheli mean in Hebrew?
Chaim Sheli/ Neshama Sheli (נשמה שלי): My life, my soul.
What does it mean to sit on schpilkes?
mick_hale. To sit on schpilkes roughly means to be seated uncomfortably, to be anxiously waiting for something or to be ready to jump up at any given time. Literal translation of “schpilkes” is needles or pins, so the English phrase equivalent is “sitting on needles on pins”. It just happens to sound better in Yiddish, of course.
What does shpilkes stand for?
Shpilkes is Yiddish for “pins.” Like “sitting on pins and needles” in English, being “ oif shpilkes ” implies being highly agitated while waiting for something to happen. The proper Yiddish pronunciation is SHPIL-kess (or SHPIL-kiss), but many English speakers say SHPIL-keys. A classic instance…
What is “OIF shpilkes”?
Shpilkes is Yiddish for “pins.” Like “sitting on pins and needles” in English, being “oif shpilkes” implies being highly agitated while waiting for something to happen.
What does stay healthy mean in Yiddish?
Translated it means roughly, “Stay healthy, because you can kill yourself later.” Yiddish is unparalleled as a darkly comic language of complaint, a way to look on the dark side of life and laugh at it. Developed out of Hebrew and German, Yiddish became its own rich lingustic culture,…
