I am just wondering. Do any of you use the word "Gimpel" from the Singer story?

Shu and I use it every so often when referring to being a fool (i.e., "I am not a Gimpel after all!")

Never heard of it!

Nor I.

Life's like that sometimes Kalleh. If only you had used it in the bluffing game you would have beaten arnie.

For the record I've never heard of it either.

Is your Peace jeopardized by a gimpel?
Good News! The cure is quite simpel.
No need for appointment;
Apply gimpelcide ointment
Halfway from a wart to a pimpel.

A gimpel's a sort of a blemish
Often seen at affairs academish.
The word comes from Flanders,
Where gimpelled outlanders
Speak a cant-pidgin patois of Flemish.

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