GANEF

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)

Synonyms:

ganef; ganof; gonif; goniff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ganef" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

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