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gonnif; gonif; ganef
noun
a thief; a crook UK, 1839
Yiddish from Hebrew. Depending on the tone, can range from laudatory to disdainful.- “Where they pickin’ up these type gonifs?” — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 63, 1951
- The little bulb-nosed goneff who used to play clarinet and had three fingers and his teeth shot out at Omaha Beach[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 352, 1961
- Then New York with Jimmy Walker–a heavy gonif, a master gonif, man. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 57, 1967
- — American Speech, pp. 145–151, Spring–Summer 1975: “Yiddish ganef: its family and friends”
- I’m on the floor in the back of a car with someobody’s shoe on my neck before I know what hits me. It’s a black shoe, well-polished and with a pointy toe. A dancer’s shoe. A gonif’s shoe. A shoe which belongs to a man who knows how to damage a man’s ribs with a kick. — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, p. 126, 1986
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