The Alternative Yiddish Dictionary
The Alternative Yiddish Dictionary
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- d
- dreck (noun)
shit, filth
- k
- kurva, kurve (fem.noun)
- +
whore, hooker, prostitute
self explanatory
- Kush meer in toches
- +
Kiss my ass
Basically telling someone to get lost, but in a humerous yet slightly rude way
- kush meer in tokhes
- +
kiss my ass
Basically telling someone to get lost, but in a humerous yet slightly rude way
- o
- oy, oy vey, oy vey ismier (interjection)
- ++
anything you want, generally expressing a negative emotion
Can express anything from tiredness to sadness to martyrdom to anger to annoyance and so on. Listed as very strong, but it's all contextual (the stronger the emotion, though, the more appropriate one of the longer forms is). "Oy, it's so hot outside." "Oy vey, three tests this week! What will I do?" "Your mother? Cancer? Oy vey ismier. I'm so sorry."
- p
- plotz (verb)
fall down dead right now
Usage: "oy, after all that shopping I'm about to plotz" Or "Ham and cheese sandwiches? If your grandfather weren't already dead, he'd plotz." Also see shikse for usage.
- putz (noun)
dick, penis
As in, "He's such a putz" or "I bet his putz is softer than a boiled carrot". It may be familiar from American slang.
- s
- schmegma
- +
vaginal discharge
Generally used as a noun meaning unpleasant vaginal secretions. I'm not sure of other uses.
- shikker (adj.)
drunk
Common word for being drunk, though not in a positive, happy sense. A trait often associated with Gentiles.
- shikse (noun)
a ditzy, generally busty, female
Pronounciation is closer to SHIK-suh. This is the kind of word grandmothers use to describe the blonde boy-toys that their teenage grandsons want to date. Generally insulting to a woman's mental abilities. As in, "You're dating ***HER***?? That shikse?? You want I should plotz?"
- shlemazle (noun)
unlucky oaf.
The sort of person who has soup spilled upon him by somebody else. (see schlemiel)
- shlemiel (noun)
clumsy oaf. Klutz.
The sort of person who, when at a fancy restaurant, invariably spills his soup.
- shmuck (noun)
- +
asshole
Shut up shmuck
- shtup (verb)
- +
fuck, bang
- t
- tokhes (m. noun)
ass, bottom
- tukhes oyfn tisch
- +
"let's get down to brass tacks", "let's cut the crap"
This literally means "ass on the table". It's not as offensive as it may sound, but it's mostly used among members of the same sex.
- v
- vashnukad
drunk; FUBAR; shit faced
It is good to be Vashnukad!
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