Feb 20, 2012 21:41
I grew up in a household where Yiddish words were used for some things, and we always called the end of a loaf of bread the "shplebbik." (I've never tried to write this word down before; I'm just spelling it in a way that looks "right" to me.) I always thought this was Yiddish, but I've been doing some Googling recently and all I can find for the end of a loaf of bread is the word "okraytshik," so now I'm wondering if this was a word someone made up at some point. Has anyone heard the word "shplebbik" used to describe the end of a loaf of bread before, or just "okraytshik"? Does "shplebbik" mean anything at all in Yiddish (or in Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, or Belarusian, which is where that part of my family lived before they moved to the US)? Google doesn't bring up any results, but it's entirely possible that I'm spelling it wrong if it really is a word. Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.
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