One of your friends or colleagues is talking your ear off – blabbering, nagging, or over analyzing. In Hebrew, you would kindly ask that person to stop being a ‘hafran,’ or literally, ‘digger.’ Guy explains how and when to use this illustrative slang.
New Words and Expressions:
Hofer, hoferet – Digging, excavating, talk a lot – חופר, חופרת
Lahpor (lahfor) – To dig, to talk a lot – לחפור
Lahpor bor – To dig a hole – לחפור בור
“Hi lo mafsika lahfor li” – She wouldn’t stop talking to me – היא לא מפסיקה לחפור לי
“Tagidu la, giveret, at hoferet, kol ha-zman medaberet” – Tell her, mam, you keep talking all the time – תגידו לה, גברת, את חופרת, כל הזמן מדברת
“Ma ata hofer?” – Why do you keep talking, overanalyzing? – מה אתה חופר
Dai lahfor – Enough talking and talking – די לחפור
Dai lahfor li – Stop blabbering – די לחפור לי
Hafarti? – Did I talk too much? – חפרתי
Hafira, hafirot – Excavation, excavations – חפירות
Hafira Archi’ologit – An archaeological excavation – חפירה ארכיאולוגית
Hafran, hafranit (hafrawi) – Someone who obsessively, never stops talking – חפרן, חפרנית
Hafarperet – Mole, double agent – חפרפרת
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You talked about pronouncing לחפור with an “f” sound. I was just watching last night’s גב האומה and in one episode I heard להתפלח and אפיפיור where the speakers both changed the “p” to “f.” What is going on there? Soon you will have no P’s at all, like Arabic!
Scott, להתפלח is slang and is actually pronounced with an “f”. אַפִּיפְיוֹר on the other hand should be pronounced with a “p” at the beginning and an “f” at the middle of the word but many find it hard to pronounce and of corse there are those who don’t know and those who don’t care.
These are foreign words, so don’t worry, we don’t lose our p’s as yet.