Etymology

Happy Merchant

Today it means: An anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew, often featuring in far-right memes and propaganda. Full definition →

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The story

Originated in a cartoon by A. Wyatt Mann (Nick Bougas) in 2001.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.