mamzer

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mamzer

(ˈmɑmzə)
n
1. a Yiddish slang word for bastard
2. (Judaism) Judaism a child of an incestuous or adulterous union
[from Hebrew]
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mam•zer

(ˈmɒm zər)

n. Slang.
1. a bastard.
2. a rascal.
[1555–65; < Late Latin mamzēr < Hebrew; in recent American E < Yiddish < Hebrew]
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C'mon you little momzer, no food for you tonight, and nothing tomorrow morning either.
Eventually my mother, infected with cholera, fell down dead in a bog, and I, Mushie Breyne's the momzer, was sent to the poorhouse, which also served as a foundling asylum.
"Mushie," he would confide; he took liberties with everyone's given name, though "Momzer" was how I was generally addressed.
Then there was me, Mushie Momzer: if folks judged their own unfortunate circumstances as accidents of birth, then what of one whose very birth was an accident?
The Egyptian comedian Adel Imam will star in the play the "Bodyguard," playing on May 15, 16 and 17 at the Cultural Theater in Al Momzer Garden in Dubai.
"When she was left off the Mommy was dealing with her outstanding success achievements in the field of passementerie and telling how with youthful folly, alone in the world at the death of her sweet sweet mother, she threw away a wonderful little position with Tarshis and Meltzer where she did only only French knots to work for her Cousin Phillie though she knew, and how and how she knew, his momzer character and terrible ways covered already in Book Three, Cousin Phillie: His Momzer Character and Terrible Ways ..."
"You're a momzer murderer, you hated his guts from the beginning, but even you didn't wish it!"
Part of me hobbles on proverbs like a cripple: " Ah goy iz ah skikker!" (1) "Sie reht wie ah momzer in kimpet!" (2) Left behind--some say--and good riddance to its narrow provincial lanes, to the whining alleys of its origins.
No matter that, in my household, the name was momzer, or that Roth spent the next decades trying to convince a larger Jewish-American public that under his thick, writerly skin beats the heart of a Nice Jewish Boy.