Jew

A surname.

Adjective

  1. 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...
    • "Started that Jew country on top of everything else, and then all hell broke loose ever since." - 2002, T. A. Baran, Galyat, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 121:

Origin

From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judean (i.e. Jew)”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá), Ἰούδας (Ioúdas, “Judah, Judas, Jude”) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “male given name, Yehuda; Judah, Judea”). Doublet of Yid. Displaced Old English Iūdēisċ.

Forms

more Jew most Jew Joo

Derived

Jew nose

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

Forms

Jews Joo

Noun

  1. An adherent of Judaism.
    • Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.

    Synonyms: Judaist

    Antonyms: gentile goy

    Hypernyms: Abrahamist Judeo-Christian monotheist

  2. A member or descendant of the Jewish people.
    • Many Jews eat bagels.
    • Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd...
    • The wrongs of a Jew are not lightly forgotten, for the race can both love and hate. - 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html),...

    Antonyms: gentile goy

    Hypernyms: Hebrew Israelite

  3. 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?” - 2010, Matthew S. Hiley, Hubris Falls, page 111:
  4. A ship's tailor.

Forms

Jews Jewes Joo

Hypernyms

Abrahamist People of the Book Semite

Hyponyms

Essene Judeo-Christian Pharisee Sadducee Zealot

Derived

crypto-Jew edjewcation electric Jew Exchequer of the Jews Hinjew Jewbag Jew bail Jewboy jewbush Jew City Jew crew Jewdaism Jewdar Jewdom jew down Jewess Jewface Jew-free Jewfro Jewfucker Jewgirl Jew-hate Jew-hatred Jewhatred

Verb

  1. 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...
    • In both cases, the Jews used Blacks as political weapons to wreck healthy White countries. - 2014 March 15, [email protected], “Jewing of South Africa”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
  2. To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal (from someone).
    • They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing...
    • 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...

Forms

Jews Jewing Jewed Joo