frumish

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adjective

Somewhat frum.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivefrumish (comparative more frumish, superlative most frumish)

comparative more frumish · superlative most frumish

  1. rareSomewhat frum.

    And to complicate matters still further in tempting the Hand of Fate I had started to court Rebecca Zimmerman, a frumish divorcee with three children who was 16 years my junior.

    2008, Jack Henry Markowitz, Stuff Happens, Or My Life as a Monkey, page 104
    2 more examples

    Furthermore, it's a remarkable hubris to say that given the current nature of frumish society, your child won't feel keenly the sense of difference - all of his/her friends will have traditional families (as this is the norm in the Orthodox world), and then your child will be on the outside looking in. You can say that this is not a good state, but it is accurate.

    1999 November 25, David Barak, “Chicken”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)

    not frum, wraps of sorts- frumish now, fish in wraps- not frum, deli- frum, quiche- not frum, chicken- frum, non-fatty steak- not frum, flanken- frum, steak with more fat than flanken- very frum, Coke- not frum

    2017, David Kilimnick, Dictionary of Jewish - Frum Life Humor, page 6

Origin

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