Thread: Words not in my dictionary

Originally Posted by Valda

My Russian classmate keeps telling me a similar word "тарчищь", from listening to it phonetically that's how I'd spell it. I was never able to find it in dictionaries and when I tell this word to another russian friend she tells me she doesn't know it or I misheard.

in slang торчать is to do drugs or be high off drugs

figuratively it means to be excited, to enjoy, but it's an old slang

it's not in any way connected to ништяк which presumably originates from German or Yiddish nicht schlecht - not bad