Kosher \Ko"sher\, a. [heb. kosh["e]r fit, proper.]
1. Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; -- applied to
food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the
requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to tref. For food to
be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a
Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food.
Hence, designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such
food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.
Syn: cosher, ritually fit, sanctioned.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Hence: Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's
not kosher to do it that way. [colloq.]
[PJC]
3. Genuine. [colloq.]
[PJC]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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113 Moby Thesaurus words for "kosher":
accordant, according to Hoyle, actionable, anal, applicable,
appropriate, authorized, bleached, bourgeois, bright, clean,
cleanly, comestible, competent, compulsive, concordant, condign,
conformist, constitutional, conventional, correct, corresponding,
dainty, decent, decorous, delicious, dirt-free, due, eatable,
edible, esculent, fair, fastidious, fit, fitting, formalistic,
fresh, good, gustable, harmonious, immaculate, in accord,
in keeping, in line, in step, judicial, juridical, just,
justiciable, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit,
legitimate, licit, nice, nonpolluted, normal, normative,
of cleanly habits, orthodox, palatable, pedantic, plastic,
precisianistic, proper, pure, right, right and proper, righteous,
rightful, ritually pure, sanctioned, savory, seemly, shiny,
smut-free, smutless, spotless, square, stainless, statutory,
straight, stuffy, succulent, suitable, sweet, tahar,
traditionalist, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished,
unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged,
unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished,
uptight, valid, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened,
within the law
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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