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GANOF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ganof mean?
• GANOF (noun)
The noun GANOF has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
Familiarity information: GANOF used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("ganof" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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