I wonder if there were other yiddish words in the Irish lexicom. Look for "sht." Shtup maybe? To fuck? Shtum did move to Britain at some point, as I understand it, and was in general use. It is a good starting wordle word if recognized by the bot as word. Gonna try it.
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Recognized! Gonna try shtup tomorrow.
Ah, you do word puzzles. So do I!
It turns out my father used quite a few Yiddish words—klutz, nosh, schlep, schmaltz, schmooze, schmuck, schnozzle, shtick, and shpiel, though I think many of these would be in general English usage.
My family was in the second-hand book trade for a time, and one of my father’s favourite suppliers was a Jew named Rodney Danker. It’s entirely possible he picked up some Yiddish from Rodney.