fri., 17 oct., 2014: the dutch of human kindness, xiv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

DUTCH:  Lijp...  ‡

DUTCH:  Lijp...  ‡‡

    ‡ )  “Coooooooooool...” = i.e.,  “groovy”  /  “great”  /  “trez chic”  /  “felicitous”...   This is a reappropriated & orig. pejorative idiom,  reclaimed & reappropriated & used by Dutch teenagers & 20-somethings.  Etym.,  Lijp,  loan word,  fr.  Jewish name “Levi” ;

 ‡‡ )  “Lazy  [Jew]...”  /  “Slow  [Jew]...”  /  “Stupid Jew...”  Orig. an anti-Semitic slur, but in recent yrs. a signifyer for all things cool & groovy...  Etym., Lijp, loan word, from Jewish name “Levi”

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