Tell it like it is
Let's Use our Yiddish
Would appreciate useful insults in Hebrew and Ladino, too.
Improve your vocabulary
krikher - crawler, as in I'd never attend a speech by that Kahane-krikher
Meshuggeneh - crazy
Fashist - fascist
Nar -fool
Kelev - vicious dog
gonif - thief
Khazer: A gluttonous person or a pig.
Khnyok: A racist or a bigot.
Mamzer - bastard
Shtik drek- piece of shit or a “shit head.”
Khazer- A gluttonous person or a pig.
Ferdskop - horsebrain
Farshtunkener: Smelly, stinking person
Fakakta - "fouled up", "fucked up"
Shmegegge (shmuh-GEH-gee) – A jerk.
Ferschnicket (feh-SHNICK-it) – Drunk off your ass.
Beheyme - fool
Vilda Chaia - wild animals (as in vicious and cruel)
Oyskrenkn zol er dus mames milakh: He should get so sick as to cough up his mother’s milk..
Oyf doktoyrim zol er dos avekgebn: He should give it all away to doctors.
Krikhn zol er afn boykh: May he crawl on his belly.
Zol er krenken un gedenken: Let him suffer and remember.
A beyzer gzar zol er af dir kumen: May an evil decree come upon him. [Used by Brad Lander in the 2025 mayoral primary]
A kleyn kind zol nokh im heysn: A young child should be named after him. (Jews don’t traditionally name babies after the living so ...)
Ruen zol er nisht afile in keyver: May he find no rest even in the grave.
Farshtunkener: Smelly, stinking person
FaKAKta - "fouled up", "fucked up"
Shmegegge (shmuh-GEH-gee) – A jerk.
Ferschnicket (feh-SHNICK-it) – Drunk off your ass.
"Gay cocken oifen yam," -"go shit in the ocean"
“Lign in drerd un bakn beygl!” = “May you lie in the ground and bake bagels."
Yemakh shmoy ve-zikhroy: May his name and his memory be blotted out. (a very serious curse though not dirty)
Khasene hobn zol er mit di malekh hamoves tokhter: He should marry the daughter of the Angel of Death.
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