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My love of Yiddish can be traced directly to Howard Stern, who was/is fond of Yiddish words like “yenta” and “fakakta.” But for him, those a few others wouldn’t be part of my regular vocab.
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Had to look this up but there’s kinkle, meaning a little kink. From the Dutch.
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shyster isn’t Yiddish. does this mean I won.
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The Yiddish for “finger” is no doubt a cognate of “finger”. With the exception of “farfetched”, all the rest are Latinate or Greek. I know, I know, I’m not entering into the spirit of the list, and certainly all those words sound great and jiddische when pronounced by a New Yorker who uses a lot of Yiddish words. But to a speaker of French, which has cognates of all the Latinate and Greek words, and Swedish, which, like Yiddish, is heavily influenced by Low German … those don’t look Yiddish.
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chintzy
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Ladle, sidle, khaki, and conquer.
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shmorgasbord, and ladle (was mentioned).
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