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mam⋅zer

[mom-zer]
–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

mom⋅ser

[mom-zer]
–noun
mamzer.
Also, momzer.
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Word Origin & History

mamzer 
"bastard," 1562, from L.L. mamzer, from Heb. mamzer, left untranslated in Deut. xxiii.2 in the Vulgate.

momzer 
"contemptible person, moocher," 1562, from Hebrew, lit. "bastard" (used in Vulgate), but modern usage is a recent borrowing from Yiddish.
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