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The term schvartze has been described as "the Jewish N-word" or "the Yiddish N-word". [5] [6] [7] [failed verification]Among white South African Jews, the term has a history of being used to describe Black South Africans, as well as Indian South Africans and Coloured South Africans.
Shmendrik (Yiddish: שמענדריק), also rendered as schmendrick or shmendrick is a Yiddish word meaning a stupid person or a little hapless jerk ("a pathetic sad sack" [1]). Its origin is the name of a clueless mama's boy played by Sigmund Mogulesko in an 1877 comedy Shmendrik, oder di komishe Chaseneh ( Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
However, post-World War II mainly due to it being used in the Nazi propaganda and the influence of Russian, the term has become to be traditionally considered derogatory. Lithuanian: Žydas (sg.), žydai (pl.) Luganda: Abayudaya (from "people of Judah") [3] Norwegian: Jøde: Ojibwe: Zhoodawi (from the French: judéité) or Joowiwi (from the ...
Schmuck, or shmuck, is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word came into the English language from Yiddish (Yiddish: שמאָק, shmok), where it has similar pejorative meanings, but where its literal meaning is a vulgar term for a penis.
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Schlep is a term of German origin, namely for the verb 'to tow/to haul'; Yiddish loans this word from German and has been popularised in English (american) slang to represent negativity towards transporting heavy loads and the extra effort which arises from it.
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