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mam⋅zer

  [mom-zer]
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–noun
1. bastard; illegitimate child.
2. Slang. rascal.
3. a child born of a marriage forbidden in Judaism.
Also, momser, momzer.

Origin:
1555–65; < Yiddish < Heb mamzēr
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mamzer 
"bastard," 1562, from L.L. mamzer, from Heb. mamzer, left untranslated in Deut. xxiii.2 in the Vulgate.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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