Speaking of cigars …
The word shyster comes to mind…
shyster /shī′stər/
noun
- An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law.
- A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
- Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •
That sounds a lot like Yiddish and probably is! 
Yiddish gave English a lot of colourful words and expressions, but apparently shyster is not one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyster#Etymology
The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as “of obscure origin”, possibly deriving from a historical sense of “shy” meaning disreputable.[1]
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary deemed it probably based on the German Scheißer (literally “shitter”, i.e. “defecator”[2]). A book published in 2013 traces the first use back to 1843, when scammers in New York City would exploit prisoners by pretending to be lawyers. These scammers were disparagingly referred to as “shisers”, meaning “worthless people” in British slang, which in turn was originally derived from the German “Scheißer”.[3]
I could have sworn, it reminded me of miser.
German has a lot of words of Yiddish (in itself a mix of Old German, Polish and Hebrew) origin too: Massel (luck), Schlamassel (we’re in “deep shit”), malochen (to work hard, especially physically), meschugge (nuts as in crazy), schmusen (to caress), Mischpoke (jokingly derogatory for family and relatives, “my pack”), Ganove (crook), Tacheles reden (to put it in “plain English”).
When I hear someone speaking Yiddish, I can generally understand every third or fourth word and more often than not get the gist of what the speaker is saying.
My Dutch lady friend here in Australia used that ‘shyster’ word occasionally. Never towards me of course, he he he. I will ask her when she returns from her holiday where she got it from. On an even more serious note though, it seems to be associated with ‘lawyers’, hmmmmmm, interesting indeed. Cheers.
The ‘northern’ area in this article mentions the Dutch, so that may be a link no doubt. I have sent her a text to query that, probably word they picked up at school. On a much more serious note, if Uwe has been using Yiddish all these years here at THS, that would explain why no one has been able to understand a damn word that he has ever said here. I don’t know why Uwe couldn’t have explained that to us in the first instance, then everything would have been much clearer for all of us to understand any of his comments. Cheers.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/West-Germanic-languages/Yiddish#ref603835
That “Dutch lady friend” is an ominous presence in Herr MacGregor’s texts, yet none of us know what is really behind that term. It warrants fearless scrutiny.
Ha ha ha, yes indeed, 35 years of her ‘Dutch’ anecdotes Uwe. She replied to my text that shyster was a word simply used for shit or such back in their youth, as the above notes displayed from the mid 1880’s. A little shyster or look at that shyster etc etc. Oh well not to worry, and here I was hoping it might have been something a little ‘nicer’ even if it wasn’t intended for me he he he. I did hear this word occasionally too, used the same as ‘shyster’, keutel . Cheers.