单词 | kosher |
释义 | kosheradj.n. A. adj. a. Right, good; applied to meat and other food prepared according to the Jewish law. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > ritually fit for food halal1797 kosher1851 glatt kosher1902 pareve1933 society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > purification > [adjective] > body of Jewish law regarding fitness of food > of food prepared according to kosher1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 121/2 The meat killed according to the Jewish law is known as ‘Coshar’. 1864 Times 4 Aug. (advt.) They will be supplied with Kosher meat of the best quality. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) vi. 66 The butter and cheese were equally kosher, coming straight from Hebrew Hollanders. 1892 M. Williams Round London i. xii. 170 We [Jews] get our kosher meat killed in our own way by our co-religionists accordin' to the law o' Moses. 1934 J. Brophy Waterfront i. 23 To cook food in the prescribed kosher manner. 1959 Hotel Managem. & Restaurant Trade Jrnl. Feb. 28/2 Only kosher meals are served on El Al aircraft. 1971 Guardian 14 Oct. 11/2 The artificial meat business has a very good-going trade already in Kosher bacon made from soya beans. 1973 Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 1/5 The Kissingers will also be given kosher food. b. Hence of shops, houses, etc., where such food is sold or used. Also kosher butcher. ΚΠ 1889 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 8 85 The defendant kept a ‘kosher’ shop. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 250 I should have to keep a kosher house, or look how people would talk. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 359 I had a whole tin of salmon once from a kosher butcher. 1973 Guardian 16 June 3/6 The last kosher butcher left for Israel. c. Correct, genuine, legitimate. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real soothc888 soothlyc888 soothfastc1175 germanec1384 truea1398 sickera1400 upright?a1500 uncounterfeita1542 righteous1543 legitimate1551 truepennya1556 arrant1570 uncounterfeited1571 real1573 current1578 genuinal1599 unforged1610 unpretended1611 legitime1614 unabusinga1628 Lubish1632 genuine1639 undissembled1651 undissimulate1652 ingenuine1661 infallacious1677 real live1684 unfalsified1688 unmistaken1694 pukka1776 undissimulated1776 unassumed1818 uncynical1824 Simon Pure1834 sure-enough1837 unsimulated1840 straight-out1848 true blue1852 veritable1862 really (and) truly1864 authentic1868 true-metal1868 kosher1896 twenty-four carat1900 honest to goodness1905 echt1916 dinky-di1918 McCoy1928 twenty-two carat1962 right1969 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 135/1 Kosh (or Kosher)... Adj. (common).—Fair; square. 1924 Cosmopolitan Nov. 104/2 It don't sound kosher to me! 1930 D. Runyon in Sat. Evening Post 13 Sept. 7/3 ‘Everything is very Kosher,’ Harry the Horse says. ‘You need not be afraid of anything whatever. We have a business proposition.’ 1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/2 Listen shamus, you got me wrong. I'm strictly kosher. 1953 H. Miller Plexus iv. 164 I made little or no effort to keep up with the others, it being no concern of mine what went on in this realm of make believe. All I felt called upon to do was to keep a straight face and pretend that everything was Kosher. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 80 It's so as to play down the queer thing in our country, and hide it behind the kosher game. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 157 It's all very well sneering at universities..but really and truly, it would be wonderful to have a bit of kosher education. 1961 L. Gribble Wantons die Hard iv. 48 ‘No financial irregularities?’ ‘Strictly kosher... It's so good it stinks.’ 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 60 They got the contracts. All drawn up in most kosher fashion, Manfred. 1973 Jewish Chron. 8 June 22/5 As for the children of a couple married in a register office, these are quite kosher. B. n. elliptical. ‘Kosher’ food; also, a ‘kosher’ shop. Also, to keep kosher, to observe the Jewish law regarding diet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > halal or kosher food herodian1609 kosher1886 halal1904 society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > purification > [noun] > body of Jewish law regarding fitness of food > food prepared according to kosher1886 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > following specific diet > follow specific diet [verb (intransitive)] > observe Jewish diet to keep kosher1963 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 125 Would we have to feed her on ‘Koscher’? 1889 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 8 85 The Jews had to buy all the things they required for the Passover from a ‘kosher’. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) i. xii. 119 He was almost ashamed to ask whether he could eat Kosher there. 1963 ‘R. L. Pike’ Mute Witness vii. 119 I wouldn't go on the stand and state that my mother kept kosher without a chance to check. Derivatives ˈkosher v. to prepare (food) according to Jewish ritual. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > prepare food [verb (transitive)] > according to Jewish ritual kosher1871 1871 E. Levy Jewish Cookery Bk. 40 Take a fresh tongue, porge and..cosher it. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) viii. 83 She..would never fail to light the Sabbath candles nor to kosher the meat. 1960 Commentary June 499/2 Kashrut has survived in a mangled form... Scarcely anyone kashered the meat. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 May 592/3 What Mrs Wahlhaus has tried to do is to bring a new and more interesting approach to many traditional recipes, but without enough style or detail; she does not even explain how to kosher. ˈkoshering n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > [noun] > according to Jewish ritual koshering1974 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 218 Meat was meat (until all that Koshering business of soaking it in water and salt had emasculated it). ˈkosherness n. ΚΠ 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. iii. iii. 317 Kosherness..is only one of the relatively minor rabbinical plagues in the young state. 1950 G. Mikes Milk & Honey 117 The Kosherness of a meal depends just as much on the way of cooking as on the raw material bought in the shop. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.1851 |
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