Do You Know Your Yiddish Curses?

A good curse can cut an opponent down to size and the Yiddish language has got some of the best curses out there. Use them to deflate overblown egos, put the icing on the cake of a winning argument, or just to show off. Can you hold your own in a Yiddish curse battle?

Question - Required - 1. Trinken zoln im pyavkes.

Leeches should suck him dry.

Snakes should bit his big toe.

Scorpions should sting his knee.

Flies should buzz in his ear

Question - Required - 2. A hiltserne tsung zolstu bakumen.

You should grow a glass eye.

Your hair should fall out of your head.

You should grow a wooden tongue.

Your legs should turn to soup.

Question - Required - 3. Zolst vern a blints un a kats zol dikh oyfesn.

You should become a tree and be cut down by a woodcutter.

You should be turned into a blintz and a cat should eat you.

You should have bells and whistles ringing in your ears all day.

You should lose all your shoes and wander barefoot for life.

Question - Required - 4. Gey in drerd un bak beygl.

Go to Hell and bake bagels.

Go into the house and hide your face.

Go cry to your mother and leave us alone.

Go inside and never come out again.

Question - Required - 5. Zol dayn leber aroyskumen in shtiker fun dayn noz.

Your hair should fall out one strand at a time.

Your garden should turn brown leaf by leaf.

Your home should always have the smell of wet dog.

Your liver should come out piece by piece through your nose.

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