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This Yiddishism made an appearance in the Marx Brothers movie, Animal Crackers. When the crowd sings, "Hooray for Captain Spalding! The African Explorer!", Groucho replies, "Did someone call me schnorrer?"
A great word.
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And a great movie! I never was quite certain what he was saying; now I know and I know what it means now, too. Thanks and welcome, JanX.
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I live with a schnorrer.... it's very annoying when I'm trying to sleep, and I have to keep nudging him to roll over so I can have some peace and quiet..... ;0)
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nudgingAnother great Yiddishism is nudge (also, noodge, nudzh, link): a person who pester, bores, or annoys. It's an example of a nouned verb: from Yiddish נודיען ( nudien) 'to bore, pester', cf. נודניק ( nudnik 'one who noodges'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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the schnorring is noodgish.....
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nudge (v.)
"to push slightly with the elbow," 1675, perhaps from Scand. (cf. Norw. nugge, nyggje "to jostle, rub;" Icelandic nugga "to rub, massage"). The noun is attested from 1836.
Sounds more attractive on the whole.
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Sounds more attractive on the whole.We're talking about two different words: nudge with a schwa ( link) and nudge with an oo ( link). I just brought it up because twosleepy said she nudged her snoring husband; not noodge, not shnorer. The Yiddish verb was nouned in English. It is common to hear: "He's such a noodge." Yiddish would use nudnik as the nomen agentis of nudien.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Aïe, I see. How very confusing. Ça suffit.
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We're talking about two different words: nudge with a schwa ( link) and nudge with an oo ( link). Nah, I'm making one word: nudge with a schwoo ( link)....
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Careful, the purists will schwoop down and get you.
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Nice link, twosleepy. Had me fooled.
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the purists
A haptic event, I do confess’t.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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he he he.... I'm such a troublemaker kidder!
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