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Yiddish expressions with your morning bagel
If you've ever watched Seinfeld (or any other sit-com about New York), then you probably know a few words of Yiddish and didn't even know it. Here's a list of common Yiddish expressions and what they actually mean. "Schmoozing" is talking about nothing in particular, "oy" is a disapproving sigh, and "mentsh" means a decent person. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's head down to the Lower East Side for some bagels.
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1. gene anson on December 13, 2005 12:58 AM writes...
A Jewish friend, born in Wisconsin and raised in Chicago, is amazed that no one in our group had ever heard of the Yiddish word, "yahupitz" [spelling???]. He said it describes someone's town as so remote as to be "a place way the hell and gone from here." Two of us are born/raised NYers and had never heard of the word, nor had the third friend, original from Worcester, Mass. I've scoured several Yiddish websites and found no traces of it. What about you? Ever heard of "yahupitz"?
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