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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kosher
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
salt
▪ Season immediately with kosher salt and cayenne pepper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kosher meats
▪ This deal doesn't sound quite kosher to me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kosher

Kosher \Ko"sher\, n. Kosher food; also, a kosher shop.

2. the practise of adherence to the Jewish ritual law; used mostly in the phrase

keep kosher, v. i..

keep kosher To adhere to the rules for eating only kosher food and handling it properly.

Kosher

Kosher \Ko"sher\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Koshered; p. pr. & vb. n. Koshering.] To prepare in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law, as meat.

Kosher

Kosher \Ko"sher\, a. [heb. kosh["e]r fit, proper.]

  1. Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; -- applied to food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to tref. For food to be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food. Hence, designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.

    Syn: cosher, ritually fit, sanctioned.

  2. Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's not kosher to do it that way. [colloq.]

  3. Genuine. [colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kosher

"ritually fit or pure" (especially of food), 1851, from Yiddish kosher, from Hebrew kasher "fit, proper, lawful," from base of kasher "was suitable, proper." Generalized sense of "correct, legitimate" is from 1896.

Wiktionary
kosher
  1. 1 (context of food English) Prepared in accordance with Jewish religious practices. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) In accordance with standards or usual practice. v

  2. (context transitive English) To make kosher; to prepare (e.g. meat) in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law.

WordNet
kosher
  1. adj. conforming to dietary laws; "kosher meat"; "a kosher kitchen" [syn: cosher]

  2. proper or legitimate

  3. n. food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law

Wikipedia
Kosher (disambiguation)

Kosher is food that may be consumed according to the Kashrut, or Jewish dietary laws.

Kosher may also refer to:

  • Kosher (band), an American punk rock band formed in 1995 in Warrensburg, Missouri
  • Kosher Gym, a fitness club on Coney Island Avenue in the Midwood section of Flatbush, Brooklyn
Kosher (band)

Kosher is an American punk rock band formed in 1995 in Warrensburg, Missouri. They have released 2 full-length studio albums. The current band members are Remi Remlinger on bass guitar and vocals, Trent White and Josh Jordan on guitars and vocals, and Rob Garrow on drums. Their second full-length album "Self Control" was released on BYO Records.

Usage examples of "kosher".

He decided on Hebrew Brothers kosher knockwurst, splitting two and browning them in the sillet These he put on a plate, which he covered with aluminum foil and placed in the oven on warm.

After that, on I Love Lucy, Ricky pays Ethel twenty dollars for a quick hand job in the broom closet, but things get really hilarious when Fred is caught placing a kosher knockwurst in Lucys asshole.

Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.

Kosher Cohen stood under the Perspex astrodome fixing the stars through a sextant.

I stopped at the Dally-Deli and picked up two humongous corned beef sandwiches on rye, side orders of cole slaw, and an extra order of kosher dills, which Chas dearly loves.

Kosher had been trying to dislodge the photoflash from the bent chute.

Sisterhood to put on a big campaign for a Chanukah gift for the temple, and he tells them that keeping Judaism in their hearts and a kosher home was more important for Jewish women than campaigning for gifts for the temple.

Rainbow makes so VIOLENT WARD 357 much money: those death certificates are one hundred percent kosher, just like the passports and social security numbers he provides.

He accumulated a carton of corn flakes with very pukey dehydrated peach slices in the box, a can of pink applesauce that resembled tree moss from fairyland, and a package of kosher hot dogs.

Everyone adjourns to the back room where the kosher caterers have set up lunch.

He never made it, nor did several patients, even though Hawkeye Pierce broke all speed records transporting calves’ aortas, with which Maxie hoped to replace human aortas, from a kosher butcher shop on the Lower East Side to Saint Lombard’s Hospital.

Margo looked up and down the street, where kosher slaughterhouses and butcher shops fought for space with tailors' establishments and bakeshops.

It was early in the day, so the place was almost empty, apart from a fat lady buying a box of pista barfi and jalebis, a couple of bachelor garment workers drinking chaloo chai and an elderly Polish woman from the old days when it was the Jews who ran the sweatshops round here, who sat all day in a corner with two vegetable samosas, one pun and a glass of milk, announcing to everyone who came in that she was only there because "it was next best to kosher and today you must do the best you can".

There's some matzoh brei here which will introduce you to good heavy kosher cooking if you have not had that pleasure before.

The rabbinical students fled, still uncertain whether the pteranodon was kosher or trayfe--but dead certain the eggs w ere edible if the proper bruchah was said over th em.