Bulgarian Phrases

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Oct 9 07:12:58 UTC 2000


At 2:56 PM -0400 10/9/00, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>KURVA--A slang word for prostitute that seems to be widely used in
>all the Eastern European countries.
>
whence the Yiddish KURVEH with the same meaning, evidently.  Anyone
know the etymology?

larry



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