Weekly Wordplay: Putz
Channel: Apex Languages
Date: 2021-11-29

Increasing your vocabulary doesn't have to mean memorizing long lists of complicated words.  At Apex Languages, we make language learning fun, interesting, and relevant!  Enjoy your weekly dose of useful words and phrases, based on current events.

Happy Hanukkah!  Who's ready to learn some Yiddish (or at least learn what Yiddish is)?!  We discuss one new word for each candle on the menorah (and then some), not to mention, of course, the Idiom of the Week (got your Torah handy?).  Don't worry - you don't have to be a mensch to understand a thing (besides my bad puns).  These are all well-assimilated, if still informal slang, English terms that even goys (non-Jews) like me can get away with in everyday speech: words like putz and bubkes, schmooze and shtick.  So raise a glass with me - don't drop it, you klutz - and toast to another round of vocabulary.  L'chaim!