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Aug 17, 2023

This week’s theme
Words borrowed from Yiddish

This week’s words
schemozzle
punim
mishpocha
ooftish
narrischkeit

Floyd Mayweather: Money on the table

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(OOF-tish)

MEANING:

noun: Money or cash.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Yiddish gelt afn tish (money on the table), from gelt (money) + af (on) + tish (table). Earliest documented use: 1877.

USAGE:

“It’s no good scrapping with your governor, because he’s got the ooftish.”
William Somerset Maugham; Mrs. Craddock; William Heinemann; 1902.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I speak two languages, Body and English. -Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)

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