BALABUSTA: A housewife of a working wife that is the biggest asset to the kitchen
BOYCHICK: An affectionate term for a young boy.
BUBBIE: A grandmother.
BUBBALA: A term of endearment, darling.
CHUTZPAH: To have nerve
GAVALT: A cry of fear or a cry for help. Oy Gevalt is often used as expression meaning "oh how terrible."
GELT: Money.
KOSHER: Refers to food that it prepared according to Jewish law. More generally kosher means legitimate.
KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure, Jewish parents are prone to kvell over their children's achievements.
KVETCH: To annoy or to be an annoying person, to complain.
MAZEL TOV: Good luck, or congratulations.
MENSCH: A person of character, good personality, and good manners.
MESHUGGE or MESHUGGINA: Crazy.
NOSH: To snack. NOSHERYE refers to food.
NUDNIK: A pest, a persistent and annoying person.
PLOTZ: To burst, to explode, "I can't laugh anymore or I'll "plotz." To be aggravated beyond bearing.
RACHMONES: Compassion.
SHLEP: To carry. Can refer to a person, a "shlepper," who is unkempt and has no ambition.
SHMUTZIK: Dirt.
SHVITZ: To sweat.
YENTA: A gossip, a busybody, usually refers to an older woman.
ZADIE: Grandfather, or old man.
