Jew

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An adherent of Judaism.

   • Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.
2. 2

   A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

   • Many Jews eat bagels.
   • The wrongs of a Jew are not lightly forgotten, for the race can both love and hate.
3. 3

   A miserly or greedy person

   A miserly or greedy person; a cheapskate.

   • “Jesus, Williams, you're such a Jew,” Jimmy said in an annoyed, high-pitched tone. “Have you ever just paid a check, or do you always make an ass of yourself?”
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   1. 4

      A ship's tailor.

   2. 5

      A surname.

   3. 6

      Jewish.

      • Whenever a Jew nose casts its sinister shadow over the register, the hotel-keeper suddenly discovers that his hostelry is full to overflowing, and profoundly, but firmly, regrets his inability to receive any more guests.
      • "Started that Jew country on top of everything else, and then all hell broke loose ever since."
   4. 7

      To make (more) Jewish.

      • 1991, E. Sicher, The Jewing of Skylock: Wesker's "The Merchant" (MLS 21 (1991), 57–69)
      • Portia's “Jewing” of Shylock has long been noticed by many critics. For an early example see, for example, the anonymous essay “shylock the Jew-ed,” Temple Bar 45 (1875): 65–70. 45. These words have potentially “commercial” etymologies,[…]
      • In both cases, the Jews used Blacks as political weapons to wreck healthy White countries.
   5. 8

      To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal (from someone).

      • I just feel like you are Jewing me out of my money. I never asked you to give me anything the entire time that you were not working. Your mom told me that you got a lot of money from the insurance that Warren gave you.
      • Then that bastard Keith showed up and did something even worse than Jewing me out of my pay: he blew the living freaking crap out of the one and only stereotype I still had to hold on to. He thanked me for my hard work,[…]
   6. 9

      Alternative letter-case form of Jew.

      • 'You're jewing me on the price, right? Well get this and get it good, I don't get jewed. Not by anybody.' Dan, who had lost the toss and taken the call, wished John a Merry Christmas. The advent of Christmas compounded their problems.
      • “By God, you're jewing me, that's what it is.” “Take it or leave it.” “Oh, I take it, but you're jewing me.” Max made a sweeping motion with his hand and the two women came down the bar to join them. When he told Helga that everything[…]
   7. 10

      The jewfish.

      • The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.
   8. 11

      Alternative letter-case form of Jew (“a Jewish person”).

      • It is jews behind the campaign to destroy it, admits WND house jew. Just as we WN have said all along.
   9. 12

      Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.

   10. 13

       Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

       • How jew do that? ("How'd you do that?")

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