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by Stephanie Butnick
September 11, 2014

You wouldn’t plotz if you lost a bingo game; zaftig is ‘more plump than heavy’

The folks at the Los Angeles Jewish Home have put together an adorable, Internet-ready video of some of their residents explaining the various meanings of Yiddish words. They go through the usual suspects—schvitz, schmuck, tuchus—as well as some less often heard terms like geshmak. It’s a sweet video, with the participants—filmed in front of an extremely high-tech looking Bingo screen—seeming to really enjoy their on-camera walk down memory lane……

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