zaftig
Use the adjective zaftig to describe a woman who is attractively curvy.
The word zaftig is almost always used to describe a voluptuous body. You might admire a particularly zaftig sculpture of Venus in a museum of classical antiquities, for example. The word comes from the Yiddish zaftik, which literally means "juicy," from zaft, or "juice," and it became a common English adjective in the 1930s.
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(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
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Yiddish is an amalgam of German, Russian, Hebrew and many other languages that has persevered even though the fate of the people who speak it has been consistently in danger for centuries. The fact that English, the most popular language on the planet, contains words that are recognizably derived from Yiddish is something of a linguistic miracle, considering many of the 13 million native speakers of Yiddish were wiped out during World War II. Many of these 15 words may be familiar, but the routes they took to get to English, and the literal meanings of many of them, are surprising. Here are 15 common English words derived from Yiddish.