Several years ago, my parents gave me a book called
Drek!: The REAL Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You by Yetta Emmes. (Of course, my bubbe
did teach me some of what was in the book, like
kurvah, which means "whore." She pretty much bitterly refers to any woman who is not yet widowed as a
kurvah, but I digress.) With apologies to the adorable Millie, whose online Yiddish lessons I so enjoyed yesterday, here are some choice phrases in the book that I enjoyed learning this afternoon include:
- Gey tren zich - go fuck yourself
- Ich cock ahf im - I shit on him!
- kish mich in tukhes - kiss my ass
- Bareh nit - don't fuck with me
- Drek oif a shpendel - shit on a stick
- Groisser potz - big prick
I wonder how to say these things in Ladino, which is a mix of Spanish and Hebrew, the way Yiddish is a mix of German and Hebrew...
I swear my grandmother (or somebody's grandmother) knew the Yiddish for "I hope someone shits in your hat before you put it back on your head."
ReplyDeleteI love Yiddish.
I think any language worth knowing must be bountiful in cuss words.
ReplyDeleteI like "I shit on him." I may start using it in English.
ReplyDeleteI like the "kiss my ass" which looks like kiss my tuccus. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, and congrats on your future Aunt-ness!!!!