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Does anyone know of a good Yiddish to English dictionary? I've been unable to find anything useful on google. I wish this book had glossary.

Janet Hardy Try Leo Rosten's Joy of Yiddish. It's not a true glossary, but more a book of (often humorous) essays that convey both the meaning and the flavor of v…moreTry Leo Rosten's Joy of Yiddish. It's not a true glossary, but more a book of (often humorous) essays that convey both the meaning and the flavor of various Yiddish words and phrases.(less)

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""So, nu, bench your fat little oysgepasheter Cape Horn tuches down on that chair and listen to my beaking. "" I got the beaking bit! But what was lost in transliteration for ""oysgepasheter"" ???

Gary Barwin "oysgepasheter" : it means "fat." (Almost all of the time, I put the English meaning of the Yiddish word in the same sentence so that the Yiddish word…more"oysgepasheter" : it means "fat." (Almost all of the time, I put the English meaning of the Yiddish word in the same sentence so that the Yiddish word worked as a spice or flavouring and the reader didn't need to know the meaning of the word because, if it wasn't obvious from the context, it appeared somewhere in English in the sentence and so, perhaps without realizing it, the reader was already getting the meaning.) Thanks for your question.(less)

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