An alternative spelling of ganef; a thief or dishonest person (Yiddish origin).
A variant transliteration of the same Yiddish word ganef/gonef from Hebrew gannāb. Different spellings reflected how various English speakers phonetically transcribed the Yiddish pronunciation.
The spelling variations 'ganef' vs. 'ganev' show how Yiddish words were spelled inconsistently until dictionaries standardized them—each writer was just doing their best to capture the sound!
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