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DICTIONARY OF BASIC YIDDISH (Literal translations in RED)
MAYCHAIM (pleasures) OF DELICACIES
- KREPLACH
meat or cheese dumpling
- Kosher style ravioli
- KNUBBLE
garlic
- Chlorophyll's press agent
- CHRANE
horseradish
- A Jewish eye-opener
- KNADEL
matzo meal dumpling
- Delayed atom bomb
- RETACH
radish
- Encore
- TSIBELES
onions
- All this and herring, too
FAMILY LIFE
- MISHPOCHEN
extended family
- Trouble makers
- M'CHOOTEN
in-law
- Ringleader
- KANE EISHORREH
[unknown]
- Tommy Manville
- VOS HOB ICH DOS GEDAFT
"What have I done to deserve this?"
- Triplets
- NACHES
great pleasure
- Lunch at Art's
- ZADEH
grandfather
- Grandchild's piggy bank
- GEDULT
patience
- Getting a teenager off the phone
- HACKEN A TCHAINICH
talk nonsense
- So I sez, so she sez, so I sez
TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS
- A MICKVEH
a ritual bath
- A kosher aquacade
- A SHOICKET
kosher animal slaughterer
- A cut-throat
- A SHANEH GELECHTER
a hearty laugh
- Belching on Yom Kippur
- A GONSER KNOCHER
a real show-off
- A Monday morning quarterback
- KLOPPEN KOP ON VANT
beating your head against the wall
- Asking the landlord to paint
- A SIMCHEH
cause for celebration
- Marrying off your last daughter
- A FARSHLEPTEH KRENK
a chronic ailment
- Filling out your own income tax form
- A DREY KOP
a scatterbrain; literally "a turn-head"
- A hairdresser
- MOZEL
good luck
- That which only a competitor possesses
- FARBLUNDJET
really lost
- A kosher butcher in Ireland
- TAKEH?
really?
- A sandwich at Art's
- L'CHAIM
"to life!"
- Famous last words
- A SCHICKER
a drunkard
- A Jewish wino
- A FARGENIGEN
a delight
- A date with Elizabeth Taylor
- HELPHEN VIE A TOTTEN BANKE
not help at all; not work
- Talking yourself out of a traffic ticket
- PAYGAH
[unknown]
- Our competitor's customers
- UNTER-FEUHRER
best man
- Undertaker
- MITZVEH
good deed
- Liking your wife's new hairdo
- REBITZEN
wife of a rabbi
- Rabbi's brain trust
- A CHOOPEH
a wedding canopy
- Gallows
- OI VAY
"woe is me"
- April 15th
- KINDER
children
- Drainage ditches
- BRIS
circumcision
- Getting tipped off
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