toyg af kapores

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Definitions

  • v. To be good for nothing; to be useless.

Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y טױגן אױף כּפּרות toygn af/oyf kapores, lit. 'to be fit for a scapegoat on Yom Kippur'

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      toig af kapores, toyg oyf kapores, toig oif kapores, toig af kapores

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