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mamzer
or mom·ser, mom·zer
[ mom-zer ]
/ ˈmɒm zər /
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noun
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Origin of mamzer
1555–65; <Yiddish <Hebrew mamzēr
Words nearby mamzer
Mamoré, mampara, mampoer, Ma'mun, al-, Mamurius, mamzer, man, mana, man about town, manacle, manada
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How to use mamzer in a sentence
By contrast, Anglophones have been using words like schmuck, putz, mamzer, and gonif for only a century or so.
He is wise enough, the Mamzer, and so is his father Belial, to whom he will go home some day.
Hereward, The Last of the English|Charles Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for mamzer
mamzer
/ (ˈmɑmzə) /
noun
a Yiddish slang word for bastard
Judaism a child of an incestuous or adulterous union
Word Origin for mamzer
from Hebrew
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