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


Er Zait Oys Vee a Gepaygerteh Kats - He looks like a dead cat. (Kissinger?)


Yemakh shmoy ve-zikhroy: May his name and his memory be blotted out.  ( a very serious curse)  Kissinger?  Netanyahu?  Ben-Gvir?


Khasene hobn zol er mit di malekh hamoves tokhter: He should marry the daughter of the Angel of Death.   (Hilltop youth of choice?)


 Meshuggeneh  - crazy 


Fashist - fascist, (as in Smotrich the fashist.)


Nar -fool


Ferdskop - horsebrain


Vilda Chaia - wild animals  (like the fascist Lebanese militia allied with Israel in '82)


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.


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.




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