New Jersey 101.5 » Yiddish http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Tue, 21 May 2013 01:34:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Rossi Glossary Word of the Day – Kishkeh http://nj1015.com/rossi-glossary-word-of-the-day-kishkeh/ http://nj1015.com/rossi-glossary-word-of-the-day-kishkeh/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:13:47 +0000 Ray Rossi http://nj1015.com/?p=79553 No, it’s not Neapolitan Italian, but it may as well be.

Yiddish, much like my Grandmother’s Neapolitan dialect of Italian, and some Spanish expressions have so much more than literal meaning

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]]> http://nj1015.com/rossi-glossary-word-of-the-day-kishkeh/feed/ 0 Ray the Ray with the "Gloss ah Ray" The Rossi Glossary – Today's Word-Kvetch. http://nj1015.com/rossi-glossary-todays-word-kvetch/ http://nj1015.com/rossi-glossary-todays-word-kvetch/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:42:09 +0000 Ray Rossi http://nj1015.com/?p=54304 Kvetch: (from the Urban Dictionary)

(verb) Piss and moan; whine; from the Yiddish;

(noun) a person who habitually kvetches (usually used for females)

Examples:

I got tired of kvetching about life in the great Garden State, so I packed up the U-Haul and moved to Delaware!

Instead of becoming a total kvetch, I decided to take my issues to the first Town Hall meeting at Ryder tonight and kvetch my head off!

Perfect usage of the term, and timely too, since tonight is the first time that all the 101.5 talk personalities (or b

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