Open Mic Saturday Word: Zhabohadyuking.

Jun. 7th, 2025 04:48 pm
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(Image description: a Tweet from Mykhailo Lavrovskyi:

Americans are learning the depths of the Ukrainian concept of zhabohadyuking.

Zhabohadyuking

(noun, slang, ironic)
[From Ukrainian zbaba (frog) + hadyuka (viper) + English-style suffix -ing]

Definition: a messy, absurd conflict in which both sides are equally awful, toxic, or ridiculous.

    Shitshows where every participant sucks.
    Political slap fights between clowns.
    Situations so cringe and cursed they feel like a cursed animal mating ritual.

Origin: The term comes from a Ukrainian expression “the frog is screwing the viper” (їба́ла жа́ба гадю́ку)—a vulgar, folkloric way of saying “this is a hideous match-up no one asked for.”

Source: https://x.com/Lavrovskyi/status/1930702385154077045; via [tumblr.com profile] mariakov81 on Tumblr, including an audio pronunciation: https://mariakov81.tumblr.com/post/785622581755674624/maria-zhabohad
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Thursday word: vigorish

Jun. 29th, 2017 08:20 am
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vigorish (VIG-er-ish) - n., a charge collected by a bookie for placing a bet; (U.S.) exorbitant interest on a loan, as from a loan shark.


Also called the vig, juice, cut, or take. Essentially, it's the bookmaker's commission, collected no matter what the outcome. In investment banking, the charge for giving advice is sometimes called the vig. The word started as American slang from around 1910, formerly also spelled viggresh, from Yiddish, from either Ukrainian výgrash or Russian výigrysh, winnings/profit, from vy-, out + igrat', to play -- so originally something like the pay-off.

Expect regulators to slap still more restraints on Comcast as a vigorish for letting it buy Time Warner Cable.

---L.
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