单词 | frum |
释义 | frumadj. Judaism. Devoutly observant of Jewish laws; strictly orthodox or religious. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > [adjective] > orthodox orthodox1841 frum1859 1859 A. J. Munby Diary 10 Apr. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 30 Being importuned by a girl in the Strand to come home with her, I replied by way of excuse ‘but it's Sunday’: on which she exclaimed ‘What, are you so froom as all that?’ Froom, she explained, meant religious. 1889 Referee 3 Feb. 2/3 ‘Dolly’, who was a Jewess, but one who was link rather than froom, was about forty years old. 1895 C. Zeublin in Hull-House Maps & Papers v. 97 The more rigidly ‘fromm’ (pious, in the best sense) are suspicious even of these stores. 1959 B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green ii. ii, in Three Plays (1968) 211 These are the consumer goods for the frum yids. 1980 Jewish Chron. 29 Feb. 31/3 The frummest neighbour of all fitted tiny bootees on to her ‘Pesachdika’ cat before she'd let it in. 1991 Northern Calif. Jewish Bull. (Electronic ed.) 13 Dec. 18 What is left of Judaism is nothing more than..some Bible stories, coupled with nostalgia for our frum grandparents. 2001 P. Marber Howard Katz ii. 98 Lou. (referring to yarmulke ) I didn't know you were frum. Katz. Oh yeah, well, I've become frum. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1859 |
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