not. An English sentence that uses either may be described by some asYinglish, though a secondary sense of the term describes the distinctive way certainJewsin English-speaking countries add many Yiddish words into their conversation, beyond generalYiddish words and phrases used by English speakers....
has roots in the Yiddish language. But it made its way into the American lexicon in a 1994 episode ofThe Simpsonstitled “Sideshow Bob Roberts,” and was continuously used in the series after that.Simpsonswriter John Swartzwelder admittedhe first heard the wordback in 1970 from an advertising...
The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases and Proverbs DICTIONARY OF POPULAR YIDDISH WORDS, PHRASES AND PROVERBS F Kogos - 《Citadel Pr》 被引量: 0发表: 2000年 PROVERBS AND PROVERBIAL PHRASES IN 'PAN TADEUSZ' AND 'BENIOWSKI' (Przyslowia i zwroty przyslowiowe w 'Panu Tadeuszu' i...
indifference, depression, or blandness. While its origin is uncertain, it may come from Yiddishmnyeh, an interjection used in that language to express dismissal. It was popularized byThe Simpsonsin the 1990s and later evolved into an adjective meaning “mediocre” or “of middling quality,”...