meh-ness

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Anyone know more about the Yiddish use of "meh"? In the 1936
> song it appears as the sad bleat of a goat, which seems a bit
> different from apathetic "meh".
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MELODRAMA IN YIDDISH by Jacob Goldstein
New York Times; Dec 25, 1898; pg. 13
"Herr Ginsburg also rejoices in the possession of a comic manservant, a
sort of Yiddish-Galacian, Launcelot Gobbo, who sings a rather suggestive
song, the burden of which is:  "Feh, es ist zu meeas zu sogen!" -- "Fie,
It's Too Nasty to Tell!" "

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