jew

present singular third person jews · participle present jewing · participle past jewed · past jewed · alternative Jew

1. offensiveAlternative 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.

   2001 September 24, Donald R. Bernard, John Goldsmith, Bullion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 162

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   Nevertheless, decisions used to be rendered based on long-honored White traditions or "precedent," and supported by reason and logic. In today's jewed system, by contrast, one is more apt to read a legal opinion which cites U.N. resolutions or jewish sociologists than Black's Law Dictionary.

   2004 June 20, Victor, “The Ten Truths: On Jewish Lawyers & the Jewing of Law”, in alt.california (Usenet)

   “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[…]

   2015 May 12, Herbert Burkholz, Writer-in-Residence, Open Road Media, →ISBN

   “And listen to me well: if you're jewing me somehow, you're gonna find yourself chasing your own head around Shower C before the week's out.” “Yes, I understand that,” Andy said softly. And he did [...]

   2017 March 28, Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47

plural jews · alternative Jew

1. AustraliaThe jewfish.First known use 19th c.

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

   1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151

2. offensiveAlternative 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.

   2004 December 21, Will McDonald, “The Jewing of Christmas”, in alt.california (Usenet)

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
2. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

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

plural Jews · archaic plural Jewes · alternative derogatory usually Joo

1. An adherent of Judaism.

   Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.

   Synonyms: Judaist · Antonyms: gentile, goy

2. A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

   Many Jews eat bagels.

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   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 by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

   He passed over the Ghetto, and saw the old Jews bargaining with each other, and weighing out money in copper scales.

   1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: Duckworth, published 1928, page 23

   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), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

   A young Australian Jew engaged on the trip of a lifetime finally arrives in the homeland of his people.

   1996 March 1, The Australian Jewish News, Melbourne, page 33, column 1

   The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates.

   1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, “Chinese Native Sources”, in Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series), volume XLIV, Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42

   Antonyms: gentile, goy

3. derogatoryA 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. slanggovernmentA ship's tailor.

plural Jews · alternative derogatory usually Joo

1. A surname.

comparative more Jew · superlative most Jew · alternative derogatory usually Joo

1. derogatoryoffensiveslangJewish.

   "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

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   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.

   1888, Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, The American Jew: An Exposé of His Career, Minerva Publishing Company, page 23

present singular third person Jews · participle present Jewing · participle past Jewed · past Jewed · alternative derogatory usually Joo

1. offensivetransitiveTo make (more) Jewish.

   1991, E. Sicher, The Jewing of Skylock: Wesker's "The Merchant" (MLS 21 (1991), 57–69)

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   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,[…]

   2010 August 31, William N. West, Renaissance Drama 38, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 111

   In both cases, the Jews used Blacks as political weapons to wreck healthy White countries.

   2014 March 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Jewing of South Africa”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet)

   Queering the Jew and Jewing the Queer [by] Ri J. Turner. Editor's Note: Interlaced with personal narrative, Ri Turner's essay contributes to an ongoing discussion within Jewish gender studies concerning the relationship between Jewishness and queerness and factors the term genderqueer into both sides of the equation.

   2014 August 19, Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 48

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

   Jew me, sue me, everybody do me / Kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me.

   1995, Michael Jackson, “They Don't Care About Us” (1:11 from the start), in HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, New York City: Epic Records

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   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 away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.

   1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor

   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.

   2009 August 1, Scott Gann, For a Minute, I Lost Myself: The Past and Present of a Schizophrenic, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 455

   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,[…]

   2013 December 13, Frank Meeink, Jody Roy, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D., Hawthorne Books, →ISBN

   In the neighborhood I grew up in, it was common for haggling over price to include the admonition “stop Jewing me!” Even as children, we would say this. It goes without saying that this was an insensitive term[…]

   2020 March 31, Julius Bailey, Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love, Broadview Press, →ISBN