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Joshua Yocum
Notes Frome the Midnight By: Jordan Sonnenblick
Term | Definition |
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Pneumonia | inflammation of the lungs with congestion |
Schlemazel | an awkward, bumbling person; a loser |
Boychik | a boy or young man |
Emphysema | a chronic, irreversible disease of the lungs characterized by abnormal enlargement of air spaces in the lungs accompanied by destruction of the tissue lining the walls of the air spaces. |
Booze | any alcoholic beverage; whiskey |
Vodka | an unaged, colorless, distilled spirit, originally made in Russia. |
Meshuggener | a crazy person |
Kibitzing | a giver of uninvited or unwanted advice. |
Schlemiel | an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right |
Chaperone | an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman onsocial occasions |
Yiddish | a High German language with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and the Slavic languages, written in Hebrew letters, and spoken mainly by Jews in eastern and central Europe and by Jewish Emigrants from these regions and their descendants |
Lawn Gnomes | a figurine of a gnome used as a garden decoration |
Gargoyle | a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal |
Jewish | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Jews or Judaism |
Probation | the state or period of such testing or trial |
Jazz | a style of dance music, popular especially in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz |
Bupkes | absolutely nothing; something worthless; also written |
Piano | a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings |
Shmegegge | nonsense |
Harmony | agreement; accord; harmonious relations |