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07 May 2008

What word do I want? Something Yiddish-sounding that means "a little." I instinctively want to write "taken a tetch too far," but "tetch" is not quite sounding right.

post by: occhiblu at: 14:02 | 17 comments

Smidge or smidgen?

posted by deborah 07 May | 14:03

scoshe?

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 14:04

Bissel?

posted by essexjan 07 May | 14:07

OK, now y'all are just making shit up. :-)

posted by occhiblu 07 May | 14:07

"Tish" would also work, but I'm not sure how common that is.

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 14:09

Alternatively 'pitsel'

Srsly, not makin' it up.

posted by essexjan 07 May | 14:10

misket? dunkle? ligbit? topiary?

posted by taz 07 May | 14:11

Yeah, bisele or pitzel!

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 07 May | 14:18

i'm just a skoshe verklempt.

posted by quonsar 07 May | 14:20

Just a tickle too far?

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 14:22

A shtickel?

posted by interrobang 07 May | 14:29

I fear I may be insufficiently Jewishified to use any of these. Sigh. Everyone was speaking Yiddish at my staff meeting this morning and I've got its rhythms in my head, but I don't got the goods to back 'em up. Alas.

Which means, I think, that I'll have to go with "topiary."

posted by occhiblu 07 May | 14:31

Oh, mine were just Yiddish sounding. Except skoche, I think.

You could just go with "de trop." That sounds like topiary.

posted by rainbaby 07 May | 14:51

a kukla, a glayven, or a bakula

posted by Atom Eyes 07 May | 14:52

bissel seems to be certified yiddish according to google.
Makes sense since it resembles the German bißchen and Dutch beetje which both mean a little.

posted by jouke 07 May | 14:54

I ain't makin' nuthin' up.

posted by deborah 07 May | 18:30

My first thought was very strongly "skosh", which has the Yiddish feeling but as that article points out isn't actually Yiddish in origin (Japanese!).

posted by LobsterMitten 07 May | 21:59

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