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Yinglish [ˈjɪŋglɪʃ]
n (Linguistics / Languages) a dialect of English spoken esp by Jewish immigrants to New York, and heavily influenced by Yiddish constructions and loan words Also Yenglish [from Yi(ddish) + (E)nglish] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Finally, to understand what New Yorkers are talking about (tawkinabow), any newcomer unfamiliar with Basic Yinglish will need to take a crash course to grasp such classic locutions as shlep (to lug, carry), kvetch (complain, whine), shmuck (a dope, jerk, in Yiddish a penis), shmeer (to spread or a spread), and oy (an untranslatable exclamation that Leo Rosten describes as not a word but a vocabulary). In between those two bookends, the connected stories are peopled with a procession of characters ranging from Aunt Gerty and her husband-to-be Big Red, mob connected and Jewishly illiterate; mingled with them are Braverman the choir director, the neighborhood kids, the memory of father's doomed family in Poland, the ubiquity of ritual, synagogue, and Talmud, affianced to Hebrew, Yinglish, and the polyglot culture of New York before and after World War II. A joke about the intricacies of Yiddish or Yinglish (a hybrid of Yiddish and English) can be interspersed with the performer's tender rendition of a Yiddish lullaby, ``Oyfn Veg Shteyt A Boym. |
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