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  • Chaleshen - To faint

  • Chaloshes - Nausea, faintness, unconsciousness

  • Chamoyer du ainer! - You blockhead! You dope, You ass!

  • Chap a gang! - Beat it! (Lit., Catch a way, catch a road)

  • Chap nit! - Take it easy! Not so fast! (Lit., Don't grab)

  • Chas v'cholileh! - G-d forbid!

  • Chazen - Cantor

  • Chazenteh - Wife of chazen (cantor)

  • Chazzer - A pig (one who eats like a pig, or behaves badly )

  • Chazzerei - Swill; pig's feed; anything bad, junk , rotten

  • Chei - Eighteen; life; word formed by the combination of Hebrew letters meaning eighteen and life

  • Chei kuck (taboo) - Nothing, infinitesimal, worthless, unimportant (Lit., human dung)

  • Chmalyeh! - Bang, punch; Slam! Wallop!

  • Chochem attick - A wise guy

  • Chochmeh - Wisdom, bright saying, witticism

  • Choleryeh - Cholera; a curse, plague, annoying person 

  • Choshever mentsh - Man of worth and dignity; elite person; respected person

  • Chosid - Rabid fan

  • Chossen - Bridegroom

  • Chossen-kalleh - Bride and groom; engaged couple

  • Choyzik machen - Make fun of, ridicule

  • Chropen - Snore

  • Chupah - Canopy under which a bride and groom stand during marriage ceremony.

  • Chutzpeh - Brazenness, gall, baitzim, nerve 

  • Chutzpenik - Impudent fellow

  • Cristiyah - Enema

 

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