Posted on 05/09/2017 4:23:43 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday May 9, 2017
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
farkakte []
-adj
Farkakte is one of those wonderfully expressive Yiddish words. In Yinglish use it's spelled a number of ways, including farkakta, fakakte, fakakta, verkakte and verkakta. Whatever its spelling, it is treated as a potentially vulgar word (guaranteeing its gleeful use by younger Yiddishers) whose German root form verkackt (thanks DonJaime!) means something akin to 'besh*tted' or 'becrapped', hence, 'crappy' or 'screwed up' Likely shares root word with English language children's slang 'kaka' (poop). Modern Yiddish use of the word has extended it to perform the adjective function for anything from 'sh*tty' to 'f*ed up' to 'crazy' to 'useless.' It's the Swiss Army knife of derogatory descriptors, although it is more often used to refer to inanimate objects or situations rather than people.
Nice
Is this farkakte or what?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3551559/posts
Oy vey! A bunch of mishigoyim (crazies)! The guys look like faygalas (won’t translate this one).
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