Did you know?
"Real women have curves," as a 2002 movie title proclaimed.
They are pleasingly plump, full-figured, shapely, womanly, curvy,
curvaceous, voluptuous, statuesque.
They are, in a word, zaftig.
"Zaftig" has been juicing up our language since the 1930s
(the same decade that gave us Yiddish-derived "futz," "hoo-ha," "nosh,"
and "schmaltz," not to mention "lox").
It comes from the Yiddish "zaftik," which means "juicy" or "succulent"
and which in turn derives from "zaft," meaning "juice" or "sap."
Viva as cheinhas de curvas!
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