Definitions
Etymologies
- From Yiddish גנבֿ (ganef), from Hebrew גנב (ganáv, gannābh, "thief"). (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish, from Hebrew gannāb, to steal; see gnb in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If he had just been a ganef of enormous proportions that would have been bad enough.”
“Can't we call her a schmutz, nudnik, noodge (this would be my preferred option), nebbish, ganef, or dybbuk?”
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“Enter the sorcerer, the ganef, the man without qualities but with steady returns — and, I might add, a family man to the end. . .”
“A _ganef_ you couldn't tell what he would do at all," Linkheimer rejoined, and Abe rose to his feet.”
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“Say, lookyhere, Potash," he began, "what d'ye mean by sending your partner to bail out that _ganef_?”
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
“Maybe he ain't no more a _ganef_ as I am, Mawruss, but just the same, he is in jail and I ain't.”
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
“Just in time for Yom Kippur comes a reminder of what a world-class ganef Sean "Shonde" Hannity is.”
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“Anybody using 'zevel' and 'ganef' (you phony) in a forum like this is the slippery trickster, especially with a name like 'Chaim'.”
“Sometimes you have to do something as difficult as condemning the biggest ganef in all history to help them.”
“Plonie: I know rabbis who are incredibly superior to Rabbi Adlerstein who have recently called Madoff "The biggest ganef in all history.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ganef’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 848 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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jm3's Words
extant, vadis, fruit-forward, flossy, tout court, oubliette, ganef, demimonde, cuvee, indistinct, tractable, aegis and 15 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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like a virgin!
my very first time
lotic, omphalopsychite, dhole, psychopomp, usufruct, exsanguinate, horology, oneiromancy, barbigerous, griffonage, legerdemain, synecdoche and 47 more...
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My first list
Words of interest
ganef, rebus, poseur, gneiss, kerfuffle, dickens, doppelganger, schlepp, slog, ganja, cruft, paterfamilias and 26 more...
Tweets
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