Words similar to yiddish

Example sentences for: yiddish

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While professional translators are richly and deeply knowledgable in both languages, the original language and the language they translate into, the so-called translator of the Census Guide is totally ignorant of the rudimentary rules of Yiddish, not to mention its spirit.
Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy (or cockamamie ) at the head of a list of Yiddish words found in English as published in Webster's Third New International Dictionary . I have spoken Yiddish since childhood, have a fairly wide reading knowledge and acquaintance with various levels and styles of the language, but have never come across a word or phrase resembling cockamamy . It simply has no meaning in that language.
Undeniable is the grossly comic intention and effect, doubtless a reflection of pop culture's infatuation with the sputtering, guttural, goofy German (rather than Yiddish) sounds of TV's Stalag 17 .
In the course of our lengthy telephone conversations I could not detect a sense of informed literacy about Yiddish as a language.
Even without the visual clue of the hooked nose, Watto's accent is clearly Yiddish, not Turkish.