This is dedicated to the ones I love. In the past my heart and head have proved fickle. Or was it pickled. I know a pickle a day keeps the doctor away because that is the truth I learned from those sellers of pickles in wooden barrels. I know that the heart of a...
Posts Tagged ‘ Yiddish ’
Oydomhood
When a week from hell lasts several weeks, all I can say is you’ve landed in the kingdom of oy. For those that have been around awhile, we used to call it Oydomhood in the older neighborhood. That was where your father’s sister’s stockings rolled down around her ankles and her red lipstick was...
on hok or hokking
“Hok a tchynik” which means loosely “bang on the tea kettle” which is a way of saying ‘to yak or nag endlessly’. When I first heard this phrase I took it as it sounded alliteratively. So forever in my mind “hok” means hock and hok a tchynic, well I say it like this, “Don’t...