2028: gazump Jul 4, 2020

A number of words entered English from Yiddish, but due to the relative number of native speakers—at times nearly 100 times as many in the US as opposed to the UK—most of these were adopted into American English first. That wasn't always true though, as with the word 'gazump' which is part of British slang meaning 'swindle' or 'increase the price (of a house) from an original agreement' from the Yiddish meaning 'to overcharge'.

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