Re: [Cz-L] Zbitke -a Czernowitz expression.

We met it at Max und Moritz with the Streiche.
In German also called Schabernack.
 But nothing to compare with a good inspirational "Zbitke ".

Hardy
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From: "Mordecai Lapidot" <lapidotm_at_zahav.net.il>
To: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:38 AM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Zbitke -a Czernowitz expression.

>I too am familiar with the term. As far as I remember it is not always
> connected with "vengeance" - just the act of doing something unpleasant to
> somebody, or hurting him/her to spite. The origin is very likely from the
> Russian word sbit or sbivat (maybe the s turns into z in the Ukrainian
> regions, or was just misspelled in Czernowitz Yiddish) meaning: to bring
> down, shake down, knock down.
>
> Mordecai
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