unkosher en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English kosher English unkosher From un- + kosher.
Meanings
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(Judaism, informal, not-comparable) 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: