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amother

↑ Moccasin

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 3:26 pm

siddur wrote:

Some of these are hysterical!

Growing up we used to refer to dustpan as “shovel “ .As in , can you get the broom and shovel.
I always thought “shovel” was the Yiddish word
for dustpan .

And broom isn't Yiddish either LOL

It's בעזים

amother

Tanzanite

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 1:40 pm

What language is boo boo(bruise)?

amother

↑ Crocus

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 1:55 pm

amother Tanzanite wrote:

What language is boo boo(bruise)?

All languages 😂.

amother

↑ Orchid

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 2:01 pm

I thought shovel was a yiddish word.
It sounds so yiddish.

amother

Snowdrop

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 2:34 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Lol about dais. The first time I heard it, I thought the same.

Tumult is yiddish.
Tumultuous is the English word (too-mulch-ooo-es).

Tumult is also English. Tumultuous is the adjective form of the noun tumult.

scruffy

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 2:37 pm

Mindfully wrote:

A word I thought was yiddish is
Gross like yuk, its gross
This thread is getting me confused!

It's gross as in disgusting is English.

Gross meaning large is Yiddish (although gross meaning 144 units of something in English probably comes from the same origin)

amother

DarkRed ↓

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 3:55 pm

Is tush (as in, your backside) Yiddish?

octopus

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 4:19 pm

I thought akshan was Yiddish (don't be such an akshan!) Turns out it's Hebrew!

amother

↑ Firethorn

Wed, Feb 14 2024, 6:06 pm

amother DarkRed wrote:

Is tush (as in, your backside) Yiddish?

I mean it's sort of derived from Yiddish (tuches), which is derived from Hebrew (tachas).

amother

Blushpink

Mon, Feb 19 2024, 1:33 pm

For whoever grew up in bkln
I always thought that the word "saposh" was a yiddish word for lingerie or womans undergatments until I realized that it was the last name of the store owner whose basement it was in at the time

wtvr

Mon, Feb 19 2024, 3:20 pm

When I read these in books I thought they were from Yiddish or Hebrew, before I knew how they were really pronounced:
chaos - I thought it was from the word chayus, like very lively
Mishap- I read with the sh, so I thought it was a mish-up, like all messed up

amother

↑ DarkRed

Sun, Mar 10 2024, 3:30 pm

I know this post is a month old, but we were talking over Shabbos and wondering the source of the word "essence."
As in, we are makpid not to make tea on Shabbos even with a kli shishi but if we make essence before Shabbos, we can use that for our tea.
I guess I always assumed that essence was some Yiddish term for a highly concentrated water and tea mixture that can be used as a tea starter.
Now someone tells me it's just plain old english.

Who is right?

amother

Impatiens

Sun, Mar 10 2024, 3:48 pm

I thought rhombus was Yiddish LOL

elusivity

Sun, Mar 10 2024, 4:12 pm

Not yiddish but growing up we always called corn tiras (Hebrew). I found it very pretentious when my friends called it "corn"!

amother

Waterlily

Sun, Mar 10 2024, 4:24 pm

Dangerous. Not sure why I thought that it was Yiddish. Just had the sound.

amother

Gold

Tue, Mar 26 2024, 10:58 pm

Essence is French derived from Latin.
True story, I knew a frum lady who thought Potch was an English word and didn't know why a non Jewish person had no idea what she meant.

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