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 Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:39 pm
| effess wrote: | | Kuchleffel and I don’t mean the ladle |
People use the words "pot stirrer" or "sh*tstirrer" but it doesn't have the same ring to it.
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:41 pm
| WhatFor wrote: | | People use the words "pot stirrer" or "sh*tstirrer" but it doesn't have the same ring to it. |
Because kuchleffel doesn't only mean pot stirrer in can also mean yenta, busy body
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amother
Poinsettia
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:33 pm
| dankbar wrote: | Geshlufen a beigel
Chassidishe tuna beigel
Farshtupte kup
Farshtipt in hutzem Plutz
Plotz/plotzen
I'm plotzing out of my pants or clothes, or I'm just plain plotzing......like I can't anymore |
What's a Chassidishe tuna beigel?
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:38 pm
The chassidishe people don't call it that way its the other way around so you should know. Cooler chassidish trying to be more modern are called tuna beigels
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:51 pm
geshmak is enjoyable not necessarily fun
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amother
Tuberose
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:04 pm
I dont think anyone said this yet- farshlept (and farshlepta krenk)
I once wanted to call a non-jewish office and ask them why they were being so farshlept?! I was so frustrated, couldn't think of the right word to express it.
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:13 pm
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Delayed, laid back, untimely, late, red tape, behind, inefficient,
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:16 pm
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Farkruchen. Literally means like climbed too far out, that when you are on a hike but also like diverted like somewhere so farfetched.
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amother
Cognac
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 12:24 am
| Tao wrote: | ....or that the translation doesn't do them justice?
(This includes Hebrew words that have become yiddish, like mamash, pashut etc)
For example, nebach.
"Oy, nebach for the family" - I guess you'd translate as shame.
"She's a real nebach" - she's a real.....shame?
What's the English word for shlemazzel?
Or chashuv. You'd say important, but not really. Because you'd say "It's important to put on sunscreen when it's hot" but you wouldn't say it's chashuv to. You'd say, "it's really important that you're home on time to watch the kids so I can leave on time" but again, you can't use chashuv there..... |
Important is vichtig
It’s important you be home on time so I don’t have a nervous break down from the kids kvetching (because miraculously they’re all angels the second you turn the handle…)
The question you have is reverse- how to you say chashuv in English, which like someone said above can be esteemed. An esteemed rabbi, a chashuvia rabbi. (Or he can just be a vichtig macher  )
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amother
Cognac
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 12:25 am
How would you translate tzigeluzen?
Like this Dr is so___?
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FlowersforAlger
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 1:03 am
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Go between forthcoming and easygoing no?
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dankbar
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 1:13 am
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Tzigeluzen would be more like soft natured, maybe accommodating, sensitive to others needs, easy to work with, calm and pleasant to work with?
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dankbar
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 1:16 am
Krechtzen, ziftsen.
Sigh is not strong enough. Ziftsen is more like sighing plus crying, sobbing, like start and stop like kids who do it and can't get to themselves.
Batropetst
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amother
Lawngreen
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 3:58 am
You could also say to besmirch someone's name. Smirch means to dirty, soil.
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amother
Catmint
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 5:47 am
| amother Lawngreen wrote: | | You could also say to besmirch someone's name. Smirch means to dirty, soil. |
I always thought besmirch was Yiddish.
OP thanks for this thread, I'm really enjoying it!
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safetynet1
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 6:29 am
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There are plenty of words that you can technically translate, but the translations are just not with the same oomph.
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amother
Denim
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 6:36 am
Tichtig means very smart in a shrewd sense.
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