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Moeeyn Kamenir		May 11, 2004
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My Boubie used to say: ' vox viet tzibella mit und kup und drerd' Which she taught my cousin and I when we asked her to teach us to curse in Yiddish. What this brilliant woman did was to keep us odducpied for hours learning the phrase which was actually a curse.'.May your head grow in the ground like an onion' The word tsibella/tzibilla wasn't on the page, so I thought I'd write.. Didn't check but I know layg keppy is say down your head and shayna punim is pretty face and longa My Boubie used to say: ' vox viet tzibella mit und kup und drerd' Which she taught my cousin and I when we asked her to teach us to curse in Yiddish. What this brilliant woman did was to keep us odducpied for hours learning the phrase which was actually a curse.'.May your head grow in the ground like an onion' The word tsibella/tzibilla wasn't on the page, so I thought I'd write.. Didn't check but I know layg keppy is say down your head and shayna punim is pretty face and longa luksch is long legsklupp dine kupp und vant is hit your head on the wall [against the wall]
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