There is a German word, Schnurrbart, which means Moustache.
Does that help?
Shelley
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Shula 2 <shulaklinger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> All of which splendid banter brings me to one of the words I learned from my father z"l:
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> SCHNORRBUTT
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> Or this is how he pronounced it. How would you say it? With an "r" sound toward the end? And is it bona fide / Czernowitzer German, pronounced my way, or is it Yiddish?
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> I would greatly appreciate your comments on this. It's a hairy problem and I've an itch to solve it...
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> Shula
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