[Ads-l] "s'goes"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Scalds?  (I.e., "burns me [up]")

JL

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 8:00 AM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

> On 8/22/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> > Date:    Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:20:26 -0400
> > From:    Jesse Sheidlower<jester at PANIX.COM>
> > Subject: "s'goes"?
> >
> > A friend asked me about a term that his mother (New Yorker, Jewish, born
> early 1930s) used,
> > pronounced "s'goes", and meaning 'to displease', as in "that s'goes me".
> >
> > I can't imagine what actual word/expression that pronunciation is
> supposed to represent. Any ideas?
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
>
>  From Yiddish /shlogn/ maybe?
>
> ---Amy Wet
>
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