[Cz-L] Czernowitzerisch

There are some words that we used in Czernowitz that are not
 German or Yiddish but pure Czernowitzerisch, nobody else would
   understand. Take this expression :
   " Sorry , I can't lend you any money , I am completely " nyuki ".
      or : "Yesterday I played poker and Salo made me "nyuki ".
      The meaning was "out of cash" but nobody knew where this word
       came from and nobody cared.
      Than I came to Israel and learned Hebrew and then one day
      a light came up : Nyuki comes from the Hebrew word "Naki "!
      Naki in Hebrew means clean.
                Hardy
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