zaftig

• “In my opinion, Jewish women are the authority on this body image stuff -- Jews invented the word zaftig and live lives peppered with proverbs like "Worries go down better with soup" and the ever-uplifting, "Eat and drink for tomorrow you may die.”

  Leslie Goldman: Oy, You Should Eat!

• “(The surest way to end a pitch meeting in LA is to tell them you want the lead female character to be a little "zaftig" - the look you get from the development executives is usually somewhere between "I'm sorry, I couldn't have just hear you correctly" and "Oh, I didn't realize you smoked crack.")”

  Paul Feig: In Praise of ... Dove???

• “Grandpa Izzy says that Margaret is zaftig, which is Yiddish for pleasingly plump.”

  Simon & Schuster: The View from Saturday

• “Amber has us LOL'n with her take on the "zaftig" Alexandra...”

  Early Recaps

• “Which means that no size 4 girl is going to be called "zaftig" by Heidi Klum!”

  Thanks To My Readers

• “While I'm not in favor of euphemisms (My favorite is "zaftig", by far), "heavy" and "big" are accurate terms.”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz

• “The "zaftig" Daisy Rock Zebra Butterfly Jumbo is as graceful and beautiful a guitar as Daisy Rock has ever produced.”

  Gearwire -

• “SEE YA! "or did things like mentioning a pitcher's" zaftig "ERA (which he really did on at least one occasion), I began to look forward to hearing his Kay-isms every night.”

  Tony Sachs: Hey Fans! Iiiiiiiit's the Fake Michael Kay On Twitter! Who But!

• “It's that she's been taught to hate herself at 160 pounds, and to describe herself as "zaftig" at 140 (a BMI of”

  feminist blogs

• “Keen attention is paid to organic features, from the topography of an aging woman's wrinkles, to the soft flesh of a zaftig figure on her bed, or the delicate layer of snow on an apple tree.”

  The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: The Haze of Memory: This Artweek.LA (September 19-26)

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