one of my favorite words is a yiddish word my parents used when describing a person who is worse than a run of the mill yenta. they would say," a yenta is a person who just wants to lift the lid of a pot cooking on the stove because they are so nosy, they would "BURST" if they could not see what was cooking inside that pot". my mother would say that" WORSE" than the common yenta was a person who lifted the lid only to mix in "TROUBLE,MISERY,BAD LUCK & IILLNESS. that person is called a KOOJ-NER-CA. only problem is that most yiddish speakers Tell me there is no such word. I was told by two speakers both in their 90's that their parents used the word KOOJ-NER-CA as did my father. their parents were also from Minsk. they think it must be a yiddish/russian hybrid. anyone else know of such?-thanks, Doug e.
When my friend Gwen and I taught Art at Ramaz on the upper east side. For our break, we used to say that we were going schpatzeering on Madison avenue. We walked in and out of stores in our east village dresses that accommodated the yeshiva dress code. But still we had fun taking a schpatzeer, enjoying the parallel universe of things. On one of our schpatzeers, we tried on antique diamond earings. That we called, the Surreal Schpatzeer.
Oh I have so many…foremost is ONGEBLUZEN (looking so sad), and then UNGAPATCHKA (overly ornate or dressed in a distasteful way), and SHPILKES (on pins and needles, ants in your pants), and finally HOCKING ME A CHAINIK (constant bothering me). Mom…I can hear you now!
one of my favorite words is a yiddish word my parents used when describing a person who is worse than a run of the mill yenta. they would say," a yenta is a person who just wants to lift the lid of a pot cooking on the stove because they are so nosy, they would "BURST" if they could not see what was cooking inside that pot". my mother would say that" WORSE" than the common yenta was a person who lifted the lid only to mix in "TROUBLE,MISERY,BAD LUCK & IILLNESS. that person is called a KOOJ-NER-CA. only problem is that most yiddish speakers Tell me there is no such word. I was told by two speakers both in their 90's that their parents used the word KOOJ-NER-CA as did my father. their parents were also from Minsk. they think it must be a yiddish/russian hybrid. anyone else know of such?-thanks, Doug e.
SCHPATS ON!!!
You can get Farbissina if you eat a lemon instead of an apple
When my friend Gwen and I taught Art at Ramaz on the upper east side. For our break, we used to say that we were going schpatzeering on Madison avenue. We walked in and out of stores in our east village dresses that accommodated the yeshiva dress code. But still we had fun taking a schpatzeer, enjoying the parallel universe of things. On one of our schpatzeers, we tried on antique diamond earings. That we called, the Surreal Schpatzeer.
SCHPATS ON!
Oh I have so many…foremost is ONGEBLUZEN (looking so sad), and then UNGAPATCHKA (overly ornate or dressed in a distasteful way), and SHPILKES (on pins and needles, ants in your pants), and finally HOCKING ME A CHAINIK (constant bothering me). Mom…I can hear you now!