Try The Joys of Yiddish by the other Rosten. There's a definition in there. tsuris maybe? My copy is packed away somewhere (I hope that I didn't lend it to an uncircumcised Philistine who committed the unpardonable sin of not returning a lent-out book.)

Or is tsuris the type of trouble? Gosh, getting old has its downside. But beats the hell out of the alternative.


TEd