Zerofive's "Favourite Words" Thread

[Karabiner]

Geneff is an old Yiddish word for a crook or a swindler. It was the cause of an amusing chess story many moons ago.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58441.165

Reply #176 is the story.

I've always heard it pronounced gunef or even ganef and in my experience it's meaning is more angle-shooter than out and out crook although I have certainly heard it used in the context of a guy who's business went "machullah" or busto and had all of his property in his wife's name.

In modern Hebrew the word for thief is ganav.

[smashedagain]

Geneff is an old Yiddish word for a crook or a swindler. It was the cause of an amusing chess story many moons ago.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58441.165

Reply #176 is the story.

I've always heard it pronounced gunef or even ganef and in my experience it's meaning is more angle-shooter than out and out crook although I have certainly heard it used in the context of a guy who's business went "machullah" or busto and had all of his property in his wife's name.

In modern Hebrew the word for thief is ganav.

cant wait to call some schmuck a gunef next time I play live

[kinboshi]

This is probably well known to everyone else but me, but anyway... today I discovered the origin of the word: berk.

[Tal]

This is probably well known to everyone else but me, but anyway... today I discovered the origin of the word: berk.

Yes that's a good one.

[kinboshi]

This is probably well known to everyone else but me, but anyway... today I discovered the origin of the word: berk.

Yes that's a good one.

I'm going to be using it as part of my everyday vocabulary, so I can use it as a strong insult without people knowing (unless everyone actually knows).

[bobAlike]

This is probably well known to everyone else but me, but anyway... today I discovered the origin of the word: berk.

Yes that's a good one.

I'm going to be using it as part of my everyday vocabulary, so I can use it as a strong insult without people knowing (unless everyone actually knows).

TBH Kin I always thought you were a berk.

[edgascoigne]

Like words?

Love 'Blonderdash'.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60061.0

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