Guten Rutsch

[David Bergdahl]

I never heard the expression but my Bavarian (1st) wife used "rutsch" all
the time in the sense of "move over, slide over" and as an adj "rutschy" for
"slick, slippery"; moreover, a student in my American dialects class
investigating "scoot" found "rutsch" to be a synonym in upstate New York for
a prompt something like "what do you say when someone wants to sit down and
the people sitting have to move?"  I doubt that Upstate is much influenced
by Yiddish although Bayerisch is, like Yiddish, South [=high] German.
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