Saturday, September 28, 2019

Selected Yiddish Words and Phrases 15 (Impress friends and family)







SPIEL: To play, as in to play a game. 

TCHOTCHKA: An inexpensive trinket, a toy. Can also mean a sexy but brainless girl. The affectionate diminutive is tchotchkala. 

TSETUMMELT: Confused, bewildered. 

TSIMMES: A side dish, a prolonged procedure, an involved and troubling business, as in the phrase, "don't make a tsimmes out of it." 

TSORISS: Suffering, woes. 

TSUTCHEPPENISH: Something irratating that attaches itself like an obsession. She has a tsutcheppenish that is driving everyone crazy. 

TUCHES: Backside, ass, "tuches lecker" means ass kisser, one who shamelessly curries favor with superiors. 

TUMMEL: Noise, commotion, disorder. 


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