"Schlonged"

When Donald Trump said, “She (Hillary Clinton) was favored to win (in 2008) and she got schlonged; she lost,” in a recent stump speech, he later claimed on Twitter that the word “schlonged” was not vulgar.  He wrote: “Schlonged is not vulgar.  When I said Hillary got ‘schlonged’ that meant beaten badly.”

 

As an expert on Yiddish slang and swear words, I feel obligated to correct him.  My expertise is the result of attending a high school in a Jewish ghetto in West Los Angeles.  Our high school was populated by over 80% Jewish students.  Our class poll deemed me “Best Sense of Humor.”  This honor would tend to confirm my familiarity with Yiddish slang.

The word schlong is used to describe the penis and it implies a large one.  The English translation would be cock.  It is a noun and is not used as a verb.  If Trump had an English professor in college, who happened to be Jewish, and Donald used the term “schlonged” in a paper, he would have been corrected.  The word schlong is used to describe a tool for joy, not for defeat.  “Schlonged” is not a word.  Just ask your spellchecker.

There are words that are Yiddish synonyms for the male organ that are indeed derogatory.  I’m sure that Mr. Trump heard these words whispered each time he passed a table occupied by Jews in a fine restaurant.  The words are “schmuck” and “putz”.  He heard them in high school and college, as well.  Any Jew that knows him well would use one of these two words to describe him.  Both words are nouns and are not turned into verbs by adding “ed” to the end of them.

If you call someone a putz, you are calling them an inconsequential fool.  If you refer to them as a schmuck, it better translates to a dishonest bastard.  I would guess that Donald heard schmuck more often than putz from his Jewish acquaintances.

   

If you conclude from this blog post that I don’t believe that Donald Trump would lead and represent our nation well … you are very perceptive.  If you believe that Trump would be a great President … I doubt that you read my blogs.   I know that you wouldn’t have made it through this one.

Cheers, Old Buz

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