Can You Pass The Jewish Slang Quiz?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: 100%


Quiz: https://www.women.com/nicole/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-jewish-slang

[wryter2000]

1. Oy vey

100# and I’m not Jewish

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Mazel tov!

[femmocrat]

5. Same here!

I’ve heard a lot of them on TV I guess.

[mucifer]

2. I got them 100% although one of the questions I got because

I knew the other two options weren't right.

I have always felt my Yiddish is so limited that if my great grandparents ever came back to life or if I see them in the afterlife pretty much all I could communicate would be insults.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Mazel tov!

[ramblin_dave]

6. I got 100% and I don't know bupkis about Jewish slang...(nt)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Ha! Mazel tov!

[flor-de-jasmim]

8. Also 100%.

One or two were guesses.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Mazel tov!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. 100% (Ich kvell!)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Mazel tov!

[Polly Hennessey]

12. I got 100 percent

because of some good guesses. 🤔

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. Mazel tov!

[underpants]

13. 10/10

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Mazel tov!

[Nay]

14. 100%! Even though I did have to guess on a couple.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Mazel tov!

[meow2u3]

18. 100%

It also helped me that I'm 25% Jewish, even though I wasn't raised as such. I heard my mom utter Jewish slang.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. Mazel tov!

[smirkymonkey]

20. I got 100%

I'm not Jewish, but I did live in NYC for 12 years, so that helped.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Mazel tov!

[Kittycow]

21. I also got 100%!

Gosh, I was just guessing and I couldn't repeat the results

Only 1 in 50 get 100% so we really have other good guessers, errr, smart people here on DU!

Congrats to the people who knew what it meant!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Mazel tov!

[Cirque du So-What]

24. 100% -- You Would Make Your Jewish Family Proud!

Now I'm off to find this Jewish family to make proud

[mitch96]

25. Ok so what are some common Jewish words some would not know??

My father was Jewish and when he was with his sister, my Aunt Lily they would come up with some doozy's... Like a "kanatche" ie: not really a dent but a "push". Like in the side of a car fender or door. Then again I did not know what was ethnic Jewish or Yiddish...

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[CatMor]

26. I got 100% and didn't even answer all the questions

[Wolf Frankula]

27. 100%

Thank you my Jewish neighbors when I was a kid.

Wolf

[Canoe52]

28. 100%, I'm not Jewish but worked with lots of Jews.

[stevil]

29. 100

But I'm Jewish.

[Runningdawg]

30. 100% - not bad for a Old Native woman - who once lived in NYC :)

[Totally Tunsie]

31. 100%, and not a Jewish bone in my body.

It's about my college dorm, though...Oy vey! It was meshuggah!

[jpak]

32. 100%

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. Lucky I got 100%

Otherwise I’d be a shunda for the goyim. 😆

[kwassa]

34. I should know from Jews.

Dated enough of them, sheygetz like me. 100%. Most of the Yiddish I know was not in this quiz.

[mulsh]

35. 100% 12 years of Catholic schools finally paid off.

n/t

[3catwoman3]

36. 100% for this Anglo-Celtic-German...

...agnostic. A few good guesses.