Bupkis is a Yiddish word, which is literally translated as “beans” and is derived from a Slavic word for “goat droppings.” Apparently goat droppings look like beans, although I’ve never actually seen any goat droppings.<\/p>\n
However just to make things confusing, it’s not used as a reference to something edible (beans), or something inedible (goat droppings), but as something worthless (a bean isn’t worth much, and goat droppings even less)<\/p>\n
To make things even more<\/strong> confusing, it’s traditionally used as part of a double-negative in an insult: “You haven’t got bupkis!” which meaning “You don’t have anything!” or “This isn’t worth bupkis!” which means that something is worth less than nothing.<\/p>\n I named this website “bupkis” because it’s filled with my favorite things and I enjoy the irony.<\/p>\n Aren’t you glad you asked?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bupkis is a Yiddish word, which is literally translated as “beans” and is derived from a Slavic word for “goat droppings.” Apparently goat droppings look like beans, although I’ve never actually seen any goat droppings. However just to make things confusing, it’s not used as a reference to something edible (beans), or something inedible (goat … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-743","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}