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1. A wise and learned man

   Undoubtedly, many chachamim and tzaddikim of Jerusalem have gone unmentioned in this book. The author begs their forgiveness.

   1998, Dovid Rossoff, Where Heaven Touches Earth, page ix

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   In acknowledgment to the wise old bearded scholars who helped make this book possible . . . Jerry Barnbaum Morrie Korcngold Gert Korengold Raymond B. Young . . . and several minor chochems their feelings shouldn't be hurt but they didn't help that much.

   1968, Martin Marcus, Yiddish for Yankees: Or, Funny, You Don't Look Gentile, page 9

   She is from California, flown halfway across the globe to gather a group of fifteen chochem together on this otherwise perfectly lovely Saturday morning.

   2015, Maureen Earl, Boat of Stone: A Novel, →ISBN

2. ironicA know-it-all.

   "Who the fuck you think you are, chochem, talking to Mr. Lansky like — " Lansky held up a hand to stop Mouse.

   2005, Gregg Keizer, The Longest Night, →ISBN, page 21