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unkosher

unkosher adjective: not kosher.

Adjective

unkosher (not comparable)

  1. (Judaism, informal) Not kosher.
    • There are, according to Penansky, 4,000 ways a mezuzah can be "unkosher" (illegitimate): the parchment may tear or curl, a letter may have weakened.1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader
    Synonyms:
    treyf, nonkosher

Synonyms of unkosher

Origin of unkosher

From un- + kosher.

Questions about unkosher

What does unkosher mean?
Unkosher means not kosher.
What part of speech is unkosher?
Unkosher is an adjective.

Words near unkosher in the dictionary

  1. unknownst
  2. unknows
  3. unknurled
  4. unkodaked
  5. unkooky
  6. unkosher
  7. unkoshered
  8. unks
  9. unky
  10. UNL
  11. unlabel

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