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nonkosher

  • a word derived from kosher.
    kosher

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The dish appears in the same chapter as nonkosher oysters and lobster.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

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

Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz tells in Making It how a high school teacher once insisted on taking him to a nonkosher restaurant—and he was so revolted that he could not eat.

From Time Magazine Archive