mamzer
or mom·ser, mom·zer
[ mom-zer ]
Origin of mamzer
11555–65; <Yiddish <Hebrew mamzēr
Words Nearby mamzer
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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.
Mazel Tov, Arvind! But Are You Sure It’s Not Kneydl? | Daniel Gross | May 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe 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
Origin of mamzer
1from Hebrew
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