Brooklynisms

[Renew Deal]

This is a list of Brooklyn speak.

http://www.lampos.com/brooklyn.htm

[foo_bar]

1. they're mostly obsolete (Italo-Yiddish) Brooklynisms

with the possible exception of "skank ho", which probably originated in Camden anyway. The sightless eel has also become endangered since the environmental renaissance of the 90s. All in all, a good guide to Martin Scorsese movies.

[Princess Turandot]

3. Are youse from Nee York..

they're not as obsolete as you might think.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Pretty funny, and not as obsolete as one might think.

[Princess Turandot]

4. LOL

They left out a lot of Yiddish, used very commonly in all of NYC.
Shmuck, from, the Yiddish word 'shmok' means 'penis' and is probably worse than putz, which is a slang word for 'penis'.

meshuggeneh: crazy
gelt: money
nosh: snack
nudnik: a pesky dope
nakhes: pride or joy
shmate: rag
tsatke: knicknack or the proverbial dust collector
shmutz: dirt
bupkhis: nothing
tuches: ass
schmoozing: bull-shitting for little purpose but ass kissing
shtupping: screwing, and not with screw driver
dumkop: remember Sargeant Schuktz lol?
tsures: troubles
mensch: a good man
chutzpah: boldness borering on ball-si-ness.

I use the words above probably at least once a week!




My father, born in West New York, which is a town just across the Hudson in NJ, pronounced almost every word with 'oil' in it as 'earl', rhyming with pearl. Burl the water. Flush the turlet.

Have you ever notced that in NYC, when you say 'excuse me' to someone, they almost always say 'I'm sorry', as opposed to saying 'no problem' or nothing at all?

And of course, no New York'isms are complete without the sayings of Yogi Berra, owner of ten world series rings!


It ain't over till it's over!

It's deja vu all over again! (authenticity in dispute)
When you come to a fork in the road....Take it (authenticity in dispute)

Interviewer - "Why, you're a fatalist !"
Yogi Berra - "You mean I save postage stamps ? Not me."

You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.


On current topics:
GEORGE BUSH: "Yogi, Texas is very, very important."
YOGI BERRA: "I know, Texas has a lot of electrical votes."

INTERVIEWER: "I understand you had an audience with the Pope."
YOGI BERRA: "No, but I saw him."
INTERVIEWER: "When you saw the Pope, what did he say?"
YOGI BERRA: "Ya know, he must read the papers a lot, because he said, 'Hello, Yogi.'"
INTERVIEWER: "And what did you say?"
YOGI BERRA: "I said, 'Hello, Pope.'"

And my favorite, from an AFLAC commercial:
"And they pay you cash, which is just as good as money!

[meow2u3]

5. He forgot a few more from the Yiddish and Italian

used in NYC

Yiddish:

yenta: a busybody, especially a woman

Italian:
Chadrool (ciadrolo): a jerk or idiot (literally, cucumber)
Shkiot (don't know Italian spelling): to bust, to lose one's cool