Isn't it a Yiddish word, anyway? Do you really need to resort to an LJ poll? I'm almost positive that you have one or two Jewish acquaintances. Oy vey...
Oy, if the schmuck is kvetching that you married him for his yiddish lore, just toss him a latke to nosh on and tell him he's a mensch before the argument breaks out into a full-fledged shemozzle.
If that sentence actually makes sense, I should win a prize.
Schmuck - literally, penis, but a slang term for a jerk. Kvetching - complaining Latke - potato pancake Nosh - snack Mensch - literally, person, but generally meant to mean a good guy Shemozzle - ? If you were going for schlemazel, as sugarmommaless assumed, this means bad luck, which doesn't really make sense.
Alternatively, you could have gone for "tell him he's a mensch before he gets all farklempt."
I was at least a little familiar with all the words I used except for shemozzle, which I discovered when looking up the other words to see if they meant what I thought they meant. According to Wikipedia:
shemozzle (slang) quarrel, brawl (perhaps related to schlimazel, q.v.) (OED)
This word is commonly used in Ireland to describe confused situations during the Irish sport of hurling, e.g. 'There was a shemozzle near the goalmouth'. In particular, it was a favourite phrase of t.v. commentator Miceal O'Hehir who commentated on hurling from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The problem is that Yiddish uses the Hebrew alphabet, and there are no definitive transliterations (I think that's the right word) between the two alphabets. As such, both clutz and klutz could be acceptable, but I've only ever seen klutz.
Isn't it a Yiddish word, anyway? Do you really need to resort to an LJ poll? I'm almost positive that you have one or two Jewish acquaintances. Oy vey...
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Schmuck - literally, penis, but a slang term for a jerk.
Kvetching - complaining
Latke - potato pancake
Nosh - snack
Mensch - literally, person, but generally meant to mean a good guy
Shemozzle - ? If you were going for schlemazel, as sugarmommaless assumed, this means bad luck, which doesn't really make sense.
Alternatively, you could have gone for "tell him he's a mensch before he gets all farklempt."
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shemozzle (slang) quarrel, brawl (perhaps related to schlimazel, q.v.) (OED)
This word is commonly used in Ireland to describe confused situations during the Irish sport of hurling, e.g. 'There was a shemozzle near the goalmouth'. In particular, it was a favourite phrase of t.v. commentator Miceal O'Hehir who commentated on hurling from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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