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May 30, 2012 2:24 pm at 2:24 pm
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kollel_wife
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Funny – but when I grew up, a similar word, with similar meaning was used.
Chazerei – meant nosh, but stems from the word, chazer (in yiddish), chazir – in Hebrew, a pig.
In English people will say – don’t be piggish.
I don’t know the word above, but maybe it’s similar.