frum
adj.— «“All of a sudden they decided this side of the town is not for them, they needed to go to the other side, because they’re more frum,” she said, using the Yiddish word for religious.» —“Two neighborhoods reveal Orthodox community’s fault lines” by Amy Klein Jewish Journal (Los Angeles, California) Nov. 10, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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