Though oysgegrinte did not survive, such is not the case for shlemiel, shlemazl, yente, klutz, shmendrik, krechtser, kibitzer, kvetsh, noodge,
nudnik, shleper, nokhshleper, khokhm, knaker, and gantser knaker, just to name a few human types whose Yiddish name tags are not unfamiliar to us.
From Yiddish to English: the humor of it all
She's active in ACT, a monthly book club and a weekly improv group called the
Nudniks, but it's "at my own pace".
Her greatest performance
We should leash boring
nudniks; otherwise they will manage to BREAK our spirit.
Mnemonics in Second Language Acquisition
There are the occasional
nudniks, but relatively few given the size of the community
Elders embrace the intellectual life: institute serves those who 'still want to learn, and often learn what they never learned when young'
Besser, "NPR Radio Wars Putting Jewish Groups in a Bind," Jewish Week, May 20, 2005; Samuel Freedman, "From 'Balance' to Censorship: Bush's Cynical Plan for NPR," Forward May 27, 2005; Nathan Guttman, "Enough Already from Those Pro-Israel
Nudniks," Ha'aretz, February l, 2005; E.J.
The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy
Coached by Antisa (Tarik Filipovic), a major player in suit and dark glasses accompanied by hulking thugs, the two
nudniks are forced to memorize a convincing, if flaky story about kidnapping Skoko for money he owed, supposedly seizing him at precisely the same time as the occurrence of the atrocity for which Skoko is being tried.
Two Players From the Bench
stood for "Sprachgefuhl Necessitates Our Ongoing Tendance" or "Syntax
Nudniks of Our Time" depended on whether or not you were one.
Tense Present
On the other hand, we've had to deal with an increasing number of
nudniks whose requests were so completely ill-conceived that one has to marvel at their chutzpah...
Contemporary real estate: dreams vs. realities
The denizens of Linda Manor are an astoundingly cheerful bunch, these self-described
nudniks who revel in all the sitting around, which they call "stupidvising"; who celebrate New Year's Eve in the middle of the afternoon because that is when they're all awake; who put on plays for one another and make greeting cards for the soldiers in the Persian Gulf War.
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
After all, this is the woman who told some particularly audacious litigants: "I eat morons like you for breakfast." Her attitude reassured me that in a world full of scammers and
nudniks, there were still people who exercised the same kind of no-nonsense approach to life that was a cornerstone of my upbringing.
Meeting Judge Judy-America's Jewish Mother
I was so relieved that he wasn't going to send me to the poorhouse or to jail that I gave him a good deal more time than I ordinarily would have to party
nudniks. Since he had claimed to be a descendant of Peretz, I got around to telling him, and only him, about the letter from the unbeliever of Nemirov in Israel.
Nokh hekher (even higher)
In the winter of 1995, I sought escape from these local
nudniks online, slowly wading into the already saturated U.S.
Of Academic Fraud and the Education Crisis - Confessions and Revelations From an Ivy League Whore
The denizens of Linda Manor are an astoundingly cheerful bunch, these self-described
nudniks who revel in all the sitting around, which they call "stupidvising"; who celebrate New Year's Eve in the middle of-the afternoon because that is when they're all awake; who put on plays for one another and make greeting cards for the soldiers in the Persian Gulf War.
Travels with Lizbeth