When he(=Granddad) was gone, Grandma sat down next to Chuck on the couch. "Was he blabbing to you about his ghosts? The ones that live in the cupola?"
"Um, yeah." There was no point in telling a lie. "Are there? Have you seen them?"
Grandma snorted. "What do you think, hantel?"

source: If It Bleeds by Stephen King
context: Granddad was telling about ghosts he had seen in the cupola to his grandson.

What does 'hantel' refer to here? They are Jewish, by the way.

Question

When he(=Granddad) was gone, Grandma sat down next to Chuck on the couch. "Was he blabbing to you about his ghosts? The ones that live in the cupola?"
"Um, yeah." There was no point in telling a lie. "Are there? Have you seen them?"
Grandma snorted. "What do you think, hantel?"

source: If It Bleeds by Stephen King
context: Granddad was telling about ghosts he had seen in the cupola to his grandson.

What does 'hantel' refer to here? They are Jewish, by the way.

Answer

I think hantel here is a name for a third person in the story

Answer

I don’t know where the story takes place but if they are American Jewish people it might be a Yiddish word. But I don’t know what it means.

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