Language question

[lalicopa]

I always call Ella a "vonce" - and I realized I never really looked up the definition. I cannot find it anywhere! I've heard the word before, to mean a naughty, smartass child. I looked up "vance" and "vonce" and nothing.

Please tell me one of you smarties has a clue as to what I'm talking about?!

Comments

[juptonrd.livejournal.com]

I've heard it too, when I lived in South Florida. Sorta like someone else might say, "hey, bitch" when greeting a friend.

from http://www.bubbygram.com/yiddishglossary.htm

Vonts: bedbug. And a bedbug in a test tube is...? A "vonce in a vial." (Voo den?) Also, a loathsome, repellent person, the way we use "worm" in English.

[tafagirl.livejournal.com]

That's the meaning I was thinking of too right away - a bed bug is a Wanze (von-tseh) in German and a Wanz in Yiddish!