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kosher, a. (n.)|ˈkəʊʃə(r)|
Also coshar, cosher, koscher.
[Heb. kāshēr right.]
A. adj.
a. Right, good; applied to meat and other food prepared according to the Jewish law.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 121 The meat killed according to the Jewish law is known as ‘Coshar’. 1864Times 4 Aug. Advt., They will be supplied with Kosher meat of the best quality. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto vi. (1893) 66 The butter and cheese were equally kosher, coming straight from Hebrew Hollanders. 1892M. Williams Round London (1893) 107 We [Jews] get our kosher meat killed in our own way by our co-religionists according to the law of Moses. 1934J. Brophy Waterfront i. 23 To cook food in the prescribed kosher manner. 1959Hotel Managem. & Restaurant Trade Jrnl. Feb. 28/2 Only kosher meals are served on El Al aircraft. 1971Guardian 14 Oct. 11/2 The artificial meat business has a very good-going trade already in Kosher bacon made from soya beans. 1973Jewish 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.
1889N. & Q. 7th Ser. VIII. 85 The defendant kept a ‘kosher’ shop. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 250, I should have to keep a kosher house, or look how people would talk. 1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 359, I had a whole tin of salmon once from a kosher butcher. 1973Guardian 16 June 3/6 The last kosher butcher left for Israel.
c. Correct, genuine, legitimate. colloq.
1896Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 135/1 Kosh (or Kosher)... Adj. (common).—Fair; square. 1924Cosmopolitan Nov. 104/2 It don't sound kosher to me! 1930D. Runyon in Sat. Even. 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.’ 1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/2 Listen shamus, you got me wrong. I'm strictly kosher. 1953H. 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. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 80 It's so as to play down the queer thing in our country, and hide it behind the kosher game. Ibid. 157 It's all very well sneering at universities..but really and truly, it would be wonderful to have a bit of kosher education. 1961L. Gribble Wantons die Hard iv. 48 ‘No financial irregularities?’ ‘Strictly kosher... It's so good it stinks.’ 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 60 They got the contracts. All drawn up in most kosher fashion, Manfred. 1973Jewish Chron. 8 June 22/5 As for the children of a couple married in a register office, these are quite kosher.
B. ellipt. as n. ‘Kosher’ food; also, a ‘kosher’ shop. Also, to keep kosher, to observe the Jewish law regarding diet.
1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 125 Would we have to feed her on ‘Koscher’? 1889N. & Q. 7th Ser. VIII. 85 The Jews had to buy all the things they required for the Passover from a ‘kosher’. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto i. xii. (1893) 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.
Hence ˈkosher v., to prepare (food) according to Jewish ritual; also ˈkoshering vbl. n.; ˈkosherness.
1871E. Levy Jewish Cookery Bk. 40 Take a fresh tongue, porge and..cosher it. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto viii. (1893) 83 She..would never fail to light the Sabbath candles nor to kosher the meat. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment iii. iii. 317 Kosherness..is only one of the relatively minor rabbinical plagues in the young state. 1950G. 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. 1960Commentary June 499/2 Kashrut has survived in a mangled form... Scarcely anyone kashered the meat. 1974Times 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. 1974W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 218 Meat was meat (until all that Koshering business of soaking it in water and salt had emasculated it). |