What Does "Shpilkes" Mean?
By Chabad.org Staff
Shpilkes is Yiddish for “pins.” Like “sitting on pins and needles” in English, being “oif shpilkes” implies being highly agitated while waiting for something to happen.
The proper Yiddish pronunciation is SHPIL-kess (or SHPIL-kiss), but many English speakers say SHPIL-keys.
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