פּיפּעל

Yiddish

Alternative forms

• פּופּיל (pupil)

Etymology

From regional German piepel, but understood as puppe; compare German Puppenhaus.

Noun

פּיפּעל • (pipel) ?

1. (Khurbn) a boy who became a sex slave to a male superior in Holocaust camps

See also

• קוזינקע (kuzinke)

References

• Pollin-Galay, H. (2024). Occupied Words: What the Holocaust did to Yiddish, pp.155-162, 235. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 978-1512825909