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  • Paigeren zol er! - He should drop dead!

  • Pamelech - Slow, slowly , carefully

  • Parech - Low-life, a bad man

  • Parnosseh - Livelihood

  • Parshiveh - Mean, cheap

  • Parshoin - He-man

  • Partatshnek - Inferior merchandise or work

  • Parveh - Neutral food, neither milchidik (dairy) nor flaishidik (meat)

  • Paskudnik, paskudnyak - Ugly, revolting, evil person; nasty fellow

  • Past nit. - It isn't proper.

  • Patsh - Slap, smack on the cheek

  • Patshkies around - Anglicized characterization of one who wastes time.

  • Patteren tseit - To lounge around; waste time

  • Petseleh - Little penis of child

  • Phooey! fooey, pfui - Designates disbelief, distaste, contempt

  • Pipek - Navel, belly button

  • Pishechtz - Urine

  • Pisher - Male infant, a little squirt, a nobody

  • Pisk - Slang, for mouth; insultingly, it means a big mouth, loudmouth

  • Pisk-Malocheh - Big talker-little doer! (man who talks a good line but does nothing)

  • Pitshetsh - Chronic complainer

  • Pitsel - Wee, tiny

  • Pitsvinik - Little nothing

  • Plagen - Work hard, sweat out a job, suffer

  • Plagen zich - To suffer

  • Plaplen - Chatter

  • Plats! - Burst! Bust your guts out! Split your guts when laughing too hard.

  • Plyotkenitzeh - A gossip

  • Preplen - To mutter, mumble

  • Prietzteh - Princess; finicky girl; (having airs, giving airs; being snooty) prima donna!

  • Prost - Coarse, common, vulgar

  • Prostaches - Low class people

  • Prostak - Ignorant boor, coarse person, vulgar man

  • Prosteh leit - Simple people, common people; vulgar, ignorant, "low class" people

  • Proster mentsh - Vulgar man, common man

  • Ptsha - Cows feet cooked down to jellied gravy.

  • Punim - Face

  • Pupik - Navel, belly button, gizzard, chicken stomachs

  • Pupiklech - Dish of chicken gizzards

  • Pushkeh - Little box for coins given to charity.

  • Pustunpasnik - Loafer, idler

  • Pyesseh - A play, drama

 

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