Recall what your grandma was saying when you went to eat.
Courtesy of Katz's Deli in NYC - sent to me by friend in Toronto, Canada.
Arein! - Come in!
Babka - Coffee cake-style pastry
Balobotishe - Respectable, well mannered
Batampte - Tasty, delicious
Boychik - Young boy (term of endearment)
Challa - Ceremonial egg bread
Chavver - Friend
Chrain - Horseradish
Deigeh nisht! - Don’t worry
Der mensch trakht un Gott lahkht - Man plans and God laughs
Es gefelt mir - I like it
Ess gesunt! - Eat in good health!
Ess, bench, sei a mensch! - Eat, pray, don’t act like a jerk
Fardinen a mitzvah - Earn a blessing by doing
Farpitzed - Dressed up to the nines
For gesunterhait! - Travel in good health
Frailech - Happy
Geshmak - Tasty, delicious
Gesunte tzores - Troubles one should not take too seriously
G’nossen tsum emess! - The sneeze confirmed the truth!
Git Yontif - Happy Holiday
Haimish ponem - A friendly face
Hak mir nicht in
tchainik arain! - Don’t get on my nerves!
Kosher - Jewish dietary laws based on “cleanliness”, also referring to the legitimacy of a situation
K’velen - Glow with pride and happiness, beam, be delighted
Lang leben zolt ir! - Long may you live!
Leben ahf dein kop - Words of praise like, Well said! Well done!
(Literal translation: A long life upon your head)
Maven - Expert, connoisseur, authority
Mazel - Luck
Mazel Tov - Good luck
Me ken lecken di finger - It’s delicious
Mekheye - An extreme pleasure, orgasmic, out of this world wonderful
Naches - Joy, gratification, especially from children
Neshomeleh - Sweetheart, sweet soul
Nisht geferlech - Not so bad, not to shabby
Olreitnik - Nouveau riche
Richtiker chaifetz - The real McCoy!
Saichel - Common sense, good sense
Shlemiel - A clumsy person (The one who spills the soup)
Schlemazel - Someone with bad luck (The schlemazel is the one that gets spilled on)
Shain vi dizibben velte - Beautiful as the seven worlds
Tu mir a toive - Do me a favor
Tu mir nit kain toives - Don’t do me any favors
Tsu fil anives is a halber shtoltz - Too much
Vi gaits? - How goes it? How are things?
Vos vet zein, vet zein! - What will be, will be!
Wen ich ess, ch’ob ich alles in dread. - When I am eating, everybody can go to hell! (Literal translation: When I am eating, I have everything in the ground.)
Yashir koyech - May your strength continue
Yenems - Someone else’s
Zaftig - Pleasantly plump and pretty
Zaier gut - Very good
Zei mir frailich! - Be happy!
Courtesy of Katz's Deli in NYC - sent to me by friend in Toronto, Canada.
Arein! - Come in!
Babka - Coffee cake-style pastry
Balobotishe - Respectable, well mannered
Batampte - Tasty, delicious
Boychik - Young boy (term of endearment)
Challa - Ceremonial egg bread
Chavver - Friend
Chrain - Horseradish
Deigeh nisht! - Don’t worry
Der mensch trakht un Gott lahkht - Man plans and God laughs
Es gefelt mir - I like it
Ess gesunt! - Eat in good health!
Ess, bench, sei a mensch! - Eat, pray, don’t act like a jerk
Fardinen a mitzvah - Earn a blessing by doing
Farpitzed - Dressed up to the nines
For gesunterhait! - Travel in good health
Frailech - Happy
Geshmak - Tasty, delicious
Gesunte tzores - Troubles one should not take too seriously
G’nossen tsum emess! - The sneeze confirmed the truth!
Git Yontif - Happy Holiday
Haimish ponem - A friendly face
Hak mir nicht in
tchainik arain! - Don’t get on my nerves!
Kosher - Jewish dietary laws based on “cleanliness”, also referring to the legitimacy of a situation
K’velen - Glow with pride and happiness, beam, be delighted
Lang leben zolt ir! - Long may you live!
Leben ahf dein kop - Words of praise like, Well said! Well done!
(Literal translation: A long life upon your head)
Maven - Expert, connoisseur, authority
Mazel - Luck
Mazel Tov - Good luck
Me ken lecken di finger - It’s delicious
Mekheye - An extreme pleasure, orgasmic, out of this world wonderful
Naches - Joy, gratification, especially from children
Neshomeleh - Sweetheart, sweet soul
Nisht geferlech - Not so bad, not to shabby
Olreitnik - Nouveau riche
Richtiker chaifetz - The real McCoy!
Saichel - Common sense, good sense
Shlemiel - A clumsy person (The one who spills the soup)
Schlemazel - Someone with bad luck (The schlemazel is the one that gets spilled on)
Shain vi dizibben velte - Beautiful as the seven worlds
Tu mir a toive - Do me a favor
Tu mir nit kain toives - Don’t do me any favors
Tsu fil anives is a halber shtoltz - Too much
Vi gaits? - How goes it? How are things?
Vos vet zein, vet zein! - What will be, will be!
Wen ich ess, ch’ob ich alles in dread. - When I am eating, everybody can go to hell! (Literal translation: When I am eating, I have everything in the ground.)
Yashir koyech - May your strength continue
Yenems - Someone else’s
Zaftig - Pleasantly plump and pretty
Zaier gut - Very good
Zei mir frailich! - Be happy!
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