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shpilkis 

{Transliteration from the original Yiddish}

Noun:
To 'bounce off the walls', nervous energy without purpose. In English - to be 'on pins and needles'. Common in kids when they have had too much sugar, or adults too much caffeine {or any combination of same}. Kids with ADD or ADHD before they are medicated.

"Oy, you kids in the back seat! Enough with the shpilkis already, or I'm gonna turn around this car around, right now!"

"Check out the cat, she got into the catnip. Such shpilkis I have never seen!"

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Slickish 

Billy is slickish
Slickish by Jack hoff me November 9, 2020
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shpilkis 

Yiddish. The type of boredom that makes you want to scream and jump up and down, as opposed to the type of boredom that puts you to sleep.
By the time I had answered the 200th multiple choice question without a break, I had such a case of shpilkis I wanted to scream and run all the way back to Rumania!
shpilkis by Mordie April 16, 2006

Shlinkis 

Put your shlinkis away, I really dont want to see that.
Shlinkis by Shlinkis Face November 25, 2009

shikishaa 

the sound a falcon's wings make when it flies to catch its prey, most often a vole.
Falcon, bring me a vole......

Falcon: ( SHIKISHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
shikishaa by pipes0901 October 20, 2010

Shildish 

Childish to the maximum extent. When someone or something is so childish, its shildish. When silly, immature, or extremely juvenile events occur.
Al you are being so shildish right now.

That's shildish.

What's going on in the world today is so shildish.
Shildish by Ildefonzo August 1, 2012
A word used to describe a woman's voice

As soft as silk
Hey voice was soft some would even say silkish
silkish by BeauTheDude July 2, 2017