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frumish

frumish adjective: somewhat frum.

Adjective

frumish (comparative more frumish, superlative most frumish)

  1. (rare) Somewhat frum.
    • Furthermore, it's a remarkable hubris to say that given the current nature of frumish society, your child won't feel keenly the sense of difference - all of his/her friends will have traditional families (as this is the norm in the Orthodox world), and then your child will be on the outside looking...1999 November 25, David Barak, “Chicken”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
    • And to complicate matters still further in tempting the Hand of Fate I had started to court Rebecca Zimmerman, a frumish divorcee with three children who was 16 years my junior.2008, Jack Henry Markowitz, Stuff Happens, Or My Life as a Monkey, page 104

Forms of frumish

comparativemore frumish
superlativemost frumish

Origin of frumish

From frum + -ish.

Questions about frumish

What does frumish mean?
Frumish means somewhat frum.
What part of speech is frumish?
Frumish is an adjective.

Words near frumish in the dictionary

  1. frumenties
  2. frumenty
  3. frumerty
  4. frumgild
  5. frumious
  6. frumish
  7. frumka
  8. frumkeit
  9. frummer
  10. frummers
  11. frummest

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