Shicker

Pronunciation : Shick-er
Definition: drunk; a drunkard.
Example Sentence: At that wedding, the drinks were weak. Not a soul was shickered.

Some Fun Thoughts:

I am so sorry that I missed the post yesterday. My laptop was in a car that my brother took golfing at 7:30 a.m. after that wedding. You remember my brother: the guy that was me before me? Better sense of humor? Less dark? About this tall with eyes and a face? Yup! That guy! Anyways, he left me laptopless and I couldn’t get a post out before I had to drive six hours.

To commemorate this occasion, I wanted to make today’s word Golf in Yiddish. But it was really just “golf” but spelled using the Hebrew alphabet. Boring—kinda like golf is boring. Instead, I chose to find the word that most people feel after a wedding, making post-wedding-morning-golf a nightmare: drunk—shicker.

The example sentence, however, was not a joke. My brother and his friend that went golfing were not shicker from the night before. The drinks at my friend’s wedding were weak—a schtickle of alcohol, if you will. But that did not stop the party. People were dancing. Relatives were gossiping. Old people were kvetching that it was too dark. It was a fun time.

I will end this with a philosophical question: If a group of people perform the “Cupid Shuffle” with the intensity of being shickered, though no one has had a drop of meaningful alcohol, are they actually sober?