We real doctors did our part, boychik.

Or that the terms nudnik and boychik invite an approving nod of recognition.

You should be with me, boychik.

'Pay back when possible, boychik, and don't ever tell the missus or we both end up in big trouble.'

Though he is your boychik.

'Training's for horses or seals, boychik, not for persons.

I was just testing you out, boychik.'

But "Boychik" itself is rather flat.

"Leave the Yiddish to the experts, boychik."

Lots of trim there, boychik.

'Don't tell them anything, boychik,' Nikitin urged.

Townsend probably invented that cliché, boychik.

"Sweet dreams, boychik.

"This boychik full of chutzpah rang my bell," Mr. Sendak recalled, "and what stunned me was the amount of hair."

'For the bribes, boychik,' Nikitin explained when Arkady asked why he transferred from Homicide to Government Liaison.

"Not with me it didn't, boychik, 'cause I told nobody, and I can't feature Pete and Bar stopping to spread the word out on the yard.

Tell Roy G. Basch I said to go deep, poppa and momma and boychik Cherokee the American Indian prince.' "

Schlomo hadn't repeated his "in your lap, boychik" maneuver, which he claimed was part of a recently diagnosed illness related to his heart disease, a kind of hand-twitch-specific Tourette's syndrome.

In a tone that took me back 60 years to my childhood in Toledo, Ohio, to which my parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe, he said: "You are home, boychik.

Besides his work, Gabe, a widower, takes great joy in his lively, intelligent, loving grandson, his boychik Michael (Jesse Adam Eisenberg), who is studying for his bar mitzvah and growing into a worthy opponent over the chessboard.

Moe responds with some mock Chinese while Larry responds with a mixture of Yiddish and English: "Ikh bin ah China boychik fun Slobodka un Ikh bet dir 'hak mir nit ah chaynik' and I don't mean efsher".