glatt

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Pronunciations

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Definitions

  • adj., adv. Super-kosher (not only of food), or acceptable to the Haredi community.

  • adj. Showing consistency of reason.

  • adj. Smooth, slick.

Example Sentences

  • "They ate at that place - glatt treif!"

  • "The wedding had separate seating and separate entrances for men and women - the whole affair was glatt kosher."

  • "Pesach at the Super Luxurious Ritz Acapulco - guaranteed highest standard of Glatt Kosher!"

  • "The whole meal was glatt."

  • "They'll only eat glatt kosher."

  • "His p'sak is based on a glatte svara" (Weiser)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish
  • English

Etymology

  • Yiddish גלאַט glat 'smooth, even' (see Notes)

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
      • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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      Alternative Spellings

      glat

Notes

  • 'Glatt', which strictly speaking has no meaning outside meat, is now a catch-all phrase with sociological rather than halakhic significance. Has a technical meaning relating to the lungs of a slaughtered animal, denoting a lung "smooth" and without adhesions or growths. Also has an interesting variant - 'Glatt treif' - meaning the polar opposite of 'glatt kosher' -- i.e. unarguably, extremely non-kosher or unacceptable to Orthodox Jews.

    See also glat azoy.

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