Everyday Yiddish-English-Yiddish Dictionary
(Starting with "P")
By
Natalya Belinsky,
"Fluent English Educational Project"
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papa-mama
- papah-mamah
- papeh
- mameh
- papeh-mameh
- pape-mame
- pape
- mame
- papa
- mama
- Parents
- Parent
- papah
- mamah
Parents
parnose
- Parnosseh
- Parnosse
- Parnoseh
- parnoses
- livelihood
- living
livelihood, living
Parveh
- Parve
- Neutral food
- Neutral
- food
- neither nor
- neither... nor
- neither
- nor
- neither dairy nor meat
- dairy
- meat
Neutral food, neither dairy nor meat
Paskudnyak
- Paskudnik
- Ugly
- revolting
- horrible
- evil person
- evil
- person
- nasty fellow
- nasty
- fellow
Ugly, revolting, horrible, evil person; nasty
fellow
pastn
to apply (befitting)
Peyn
- di Peyn
- Pein
- di Pein
- anguish
anguish
Pilke
ball
pinktlekh
- pinktleh
- pinktlech
- exact
- accurate
accurate, exact
Pintele
- pinteleh
- point
- Jew
- spark
- Jewishness
(lit.) the point of a Jew: the "spark"
of Jewishness within all Jews
Pisher
- Pischer
- innocent
- naive
- beginner
- novice
- wet behind the ears
- wet
- behind
- ear
- ears
innocent; naive; beginner; novice; wet behind
the ears
Pisk
- mouth
- big mouth
- loudmouth
- big
Slang for mouth; insultingly,
a big mouth, loudmouth
Pisk-Malocheh
- Pisk-Malokheh
- Pisk-Maloche
- Pisk-Malokhe
- Pisk-Malocha
- Pisk-Malokha
- Big talker
- little doer
- Big
- talker
- little
- doer
- Malocheh
- Malokheh
- Pisk
- Maloche
- Malokhe
- Malocha
- Malokha
Big talker-little doer! (A man who talks a good
line but does nothing)
pits'l
- pitsel
- A Pitsele
- Pitsele
- wee
- tiny bit
- tiny
- bit
- young
- young child
- small child
- small
- child
- pitz'l
- pitzel
Wee, tiny; tiny bit; very young or small child
Platz
- plotz
- Plats
- plots
- Explode with emotions
- Explode
- emotions
- emotion
- Burst
- plotzen
- plotsen
- platzen
- platsen
- Fall down dead
- Fall down
- dead
- Fall
Explode with emotions; Burst! Bust your guts
out! Split your guts! Fall down dead right now
Commentary:
To feel so tired, excited or bursting with emotion
that you could fall over.
Examples:
"Oy, after all that shopping I'm about
to plotz!"
"Ham and cheese sandwiches? If your grandfather
weren't already dead, he'd plotz."
"When I saw him after all these years I
felt like I could just plotz!"
Plazhe
beach
Pogrom
violent, anti-Semitic attack of a Jewish village
or area; pogrom, massacre
Potch
spank
potchka
To make a mess, to mess around, to mess up.
Potchkied
- potchkit
- overdone
- overwrought
- overdo
- potschkied
- potschkit
- potshkied
- potshkit
overdone, overwrought
Prost
- Coarse
- common
- vulgar
- prosteh
- proster
- priste
- prosteun
- prust
- proost
- rough
- unrefined
- unrefine
Coarse, common, vulgar, rough; (socially) unrefined
Prostaches
- Prostakhes
- Low class people
- Low class
- people
- Low
- class
- Prostak
- Prostakes
Low class people
Prostak
- Prostakes
- Prostakhes
- Prostaches
- Ignorant boor
- coarse person
- vulgar man
- Ignorant
- boor
- coarse
- person
- vulgar
- man
Ignorant boor, coarse person, vulgar man
Prosteh leit
- Prosteh lait
- Prosteh layt
- Prosteh leyt
- Simple people
- common people
- Simple
- common
- vulgar
- ignorant
- low class
- people
- proster
- leit
- lait
- Proste
- prosteun
- layt
- Prosteh
- leyt
- low
- class
Simple people, common people; vulgar, ignorant,
"low class" people
Proster mentsh
- Proster mensh
- Proster
- mentsh
- Proste
- mensh
- Prosteh
- Vulgar man
- common person
- Vulgar
- man
- common
- person
Vulgar man, common man
Prosteun
- Prosteh
- proster
- Proste
- Unrefined
- simple
Unrefined; simple
Psule
Virgo
Punim
Face
Pupik
- belly button
- belly
- button
- Navel
- gizzard
- chicken stomach
- chicken
- stomach
Navel, belly button, gizzard, chicken stomach
Pupiklech
- Pupiklekh
- Dish of chicken gizzards
- Dish of chicken gizzard
- Dish
- chicken gizzards
- chicken gizzard
- chicken
- gizzard
- gizzards
Dish of chicken gizzards
Pushkeh
- Pushke
- charity box
- box for coins
- charity
- box
Little box for coins; charity box
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