Must be from living in NY all these years.
Maybe Yiddish isn't so bad a comparison. It has lots of great words and phrases that have entered everyday speech, and I'll bet Brokish will, too.
oy vey = shit, that's hard
kvetch = bitch
pisher = pissant
tush - ass
gelt = bucks
schlong = dick
mensch = good ol' boy
bris = dick-clip
chutzpah = balls
putz = dumbass
omigawd, these are hilarious!
verklempt = one of those asthma spells
or overcome with incendiary rage
babka = cherry cake
shpilkis in the genechtagazoink = gut cramps
shayna punim = good looking (little gal over in Riverton)
bubkes = I'm nothing, I'm nowhere
nebish = Bobby
nosh = we gotta do somethin' about this food situation
facacta = you're a real thinker there
meshugina = you ever get the feeling...like they all know?
pupik = below Cassie's tube top
shmendrick = Aguirre
shmatas = Alma's wardrobe
shtik = Jack's mock-rodeo-mating dance
kvel = how Ennis loves his little girls
mazel tov/ l'chaim = To Alma and Curt