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Word: yiddishe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

schmendrick (Yiddish)-a clumsy jerk

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

quetch (from Yiddish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...finif (Yiddish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...mayvin (Yiddish clothing-store cant)-a know-it-all customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Died. Maurice Schwartz, 69, founder, director and leading actor of New York's Yiddish Art Theater, which from 1919 to 1950 produced about 150 plays-from Shakespeare to Sholom Aleichem-and such alumni as Paul Muni and Stella Adler; of a heart attack; in Petah Tikva, Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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