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mamzer

or mom·ser, mom·zer

[ mom-zer ]

noun

  1. bastard; illegitimate child.
  2. Slang. rascal.
  3. a child born of a marriage forbidden in Judaism.


mamzer

/ ˈmɑmzə /

noun

  1. a Yiddish slang word for bastard
  2. Judaism a child of an incestuous or adulterous union
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mamzer1

1555–65; < Yiddish < Hebrew mamzēr
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mamzer1

from Hebrew
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Example Sentences

Thus it was found out that the boy was a Mamzer and a Ben Haniddah; upon which the sages exclaimed, "Great is Rabbi Akiva, for he has overcome his masters;" and as they congratulated him they said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath revealed His secret unto Akiva the son of Joseph."

Ah, my sons," said Hereward, laughing sadly, "do you suppose that the Mamzer spends his time—and Englishmen's life and labor—in heaping up those great stone mountains, that you and I may walk past them?

He is wise enough, the Mamzer, and so is his father Belial, to whom he will go home some day.

And have her I will, unless the Mamzer, in his present merciful and politic mood, makes a Countess of her, and marries her up to some Norman coxcomb with a long pedigree,—invented the year before last.

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