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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCan You Pass The Jewish Slang Quiz?
Me: 100%
Quiz: https://www.women.com/nicole/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-jewish-slang
wryter2000
(46,082 posts)100# and Im not Jewish
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Ive heard a lot of them on TV I guess.
mucifer
(23,569 posts)I knew the other two options weren't right.
I have always felt my Yiddish is so limited that if my great grandparents ever came back to life or if I see them in the afterlife pretty much all I could communicate would be insults.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)ramblin_dave
(1,549 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)One or two were guesses.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,806 posts)because of some good guesses. 🤔
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)underpants
(182,883 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)meow2u3
(24,773 posts)It also helped me that I'm 25% Jewish, even though I wasn't raised as such. I heard my mom utter Jewish slang.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm not Jewish, but I did live in NYC for 12 years, so that helped.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Gosh, I was just guessing and I couldn't repeat the results
Only 1 in 50 get 100% so we really have other good guessers, errr, smart people here on DU!
Congrats to the people who knew what it meant!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,609 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)Now I'm off to find this Jewish family to make proud
mitch96
(13,925 posts)My father was Jewish and when he was with his sister, my Aunt Lily they would come up with some doozy's... Like a "kanatche" ie: not really a dent but a "push". Like in the side of a car fender or door. Then again I did not know what was ethnic Jewish or Yiddish...
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Thank you my Jewish neighbors when I was a kid.
Wolf
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)stevil
(1,537 posts)But I'm Jewish.
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)It's about my college dorm, though...Oy vey! It was meshuggah!
jpak
(41,759 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Otherwise Id be a shunda for the goyim. 😆
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Dated enough of them, sheygetz like me. 100%. Most of the Yiddish I know was not in this quiz.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)n/t
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)...agnostic. A few good guesses.