Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thief, scoundrel, or rascal.
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- noun slang, pejorative
Thief ,rascal ,scoundrel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If he had just been a ganef of enormous proportions that would have been bad enough.
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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. . .
Train wreck 2009
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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. . .
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Can't we call her a schmutz, nudnik, noodge (this would be my preferred option), nebbish, ganef, or dybbuk?
GOP Consultant On CNN: Sometimes It's "Accurate" To Call A Woman A "Bitch" 2009
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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. . .
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"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 Montague Glass 1905
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"A _ganef_ you couldn't tell what he would do at all," Linkheimer rejoined, and Abe rose to his feet.
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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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 Montague Glass 1905
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Just in time for Yom Kippur comes a reminder of what a world-class ganef Sean "Shonde" Hannity is.
WN.com - Articles related to Clinton to visit VMI, receive diplomat award 2010
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Just in time for Yom Kippur comes a reminder of what a world-class ganef Sean "Shonde" Hannity is.
WN.com - Articles related to Clinton to visit VMI, receive diplomat award 2010
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