hefker
Pronunciations
hefker | (HEHF-kehr) | listen |
Definitions
adj. ownerless
adj. Running wild, undisciplined.
Example Sentences
"All of the stuff that's hefker in our kitchen is on that table so that everyone knows they can eat it."
"What I could see was benchloads of babysitters shmoozing with each other and the kids running around hefker." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
הפֿקר
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
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