Words similar to yiddish

Example sentences for: yiddish

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I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
This, however, would be practically impossible with the so-called Guide . No amount of patient effort and guessing to reconstruct a sentence would be of any avail because the Yiddish in the Guide is garbled to the point of incoherence.
Let the record be set straight: Yiddish has only gendzl `gosling.
For example, adeSHEM , defined as “a Hebrew euphemism for the Tetragrammaton’; kakuh-MAYmee , about which the author says “not Yiddish but it sounds like it,’ misspelling the actual English word as cockamaimy .
There, they attempt to repair their broken spaceship but are stymied by the hook-nosed owner of the local parts shop--Watto--who also happens to have a thick Yiddish accent!