momzer

noun

bastard; illegitimate child.

Slang. rascal.

a child born of a marriage forbidden in Judaism.

Also, momser, momzer.

Origin:
1555–65; < Yiddish < Hebrew mamzēr

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noun

mamzer.

Also, mom·zer.

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mamzer (ˈmɑmzə)

—n
1.	a Yiddish slang word for bastard
2.	Judaism a child of an incestuous or adulterous union

[from Hebrew]

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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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