tref

Not ritually clean

Tref is the Yiddish term for food that is not kosher—forbidden under Jewish dietary law.

Pork and shellfish are tref.

Meat and dairy served together is tref.

The word extends to anything ritually unfit or, more loosely, anything unclean or objectionable: The whole deal felt tref to me.

Also spelled treif or treyf.

kashrut

unkosher

Forbidden by dietary laws

prohibited · impure · dietary · shellfish · pork · mixing · meat · dairy · rabbinical · halacha

slang

worthless

Lacking any value

crummy · junky · shoddy · substandard · rubbish · garbage · useless · cheap · defective · second-rate

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trefkosher

Permissible by Jewish law

pareve · clean · legitimate · proper · acceptable

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trough

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