Re: [chile-heads] RE: Schmuckendrops
Jose Cisneros (jcisn@novagate.com)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 15:14:13 -0400
Elsa Altshool wrote:
>
> Scott: wouldn't cheap jewelry and other items in bad taste be "dreck" in
> German? I wonder whether linguistic clarity might require the word to be
> schmuckendropen?
> Elsa
Dreck is Yiddish, as in trash or rubbish.
As in the old whaling term "whale dreck"
All the stuff that dribbled and seeped and fell through the hatches
of the whaling ship during the process of slaughtering and rendering
and ended up in the bottom of the ship.
And now I will step off my pendantic soap box and slink away.
Jose