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nonkosher

  • a word derived from kosher.
    kosher

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Their nonkosher Jewish family talked avidly of food and cooking.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2023

On the coffee table were two pizzas, one kosher, one nonkosher.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2017

“As a general principle, something derived from a nonkosher animal is not kosher,” says Rabbi Menachem Genack, head of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2014

Mr. Delman, 50, of Yonkers, was not raised in a kosher home, so when he turned more religious as a young adult he knew what nonkosher delicacies he was missing.

From New York Times Apr. 11, 2014

Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators.

From Time Magazine Archive