ADOPTED WORDS FROM THE YIDDISH

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Here’s a sampling of commonly used Yiddish words:

bubbe, bupkes, chutzpah, feh!, gelt, glitch, gornisht, kibbitz, klutz, knish, kosher, kvetch, lox, mazel, Mazel Tov, mensch, macher, maven, megillah, mishegoss, nebbish, noodge, nosh, nu, nudnik, oy, plotz, shlemiel, shlep, shlimazel, shmaltz, shmatte, shmendrik, shmooze, shmutz, shtick, shvitz, tsouris, yenta, yutz, and zaftig.

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06.29.17 1:16
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