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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).
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 ...
Oxford, and most other sources think that the word is derived from Scheuster, the name of an unscrupulous 19th century lawyer. There is no mention of it being used primarily by Yiddish speakers, although if it were, then the entry would more naturally belong in list of English words of Yiddish origin. RMoloney 11:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Sheigetz or shegetz (שייגעץ or in Hebrew שֵׁיְגֶּץ; alternative Romanizations incl. shaygetz, shaigetz, sheygets) with the alternative form shkotz (plural: sheygetses and shkotzim, respectively [1]) is a Yiddish word that has entered English to refer to a non-Jewish boy or young man. It may also be used by an observant Jew when ...
A Yiddish saying explains that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup and a schlimazel is the person it lands on". [3] The schlemiel is similar to the schmuck but, as stated in a 2010 essay in The Forward , a schmuck can improve himself while "a schlemiel, a schlimazel and a schmendrik are irredeemably what they are".
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Through Yiddish, [3] the word has been adopted into English (pl: goyim or goys) also to mean "gentile", sometimes in a pejorative sense. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Biblical Hebrew word goy has been commonly translated into English as nation , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] meaning a group of persons of the same ethnic family who speak the same language (rather than ...