Meanings
plural cohencidences
- derogatoryhumorousoffensivesarcasticslangSomething that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.
9. Is it mere coincidence (Cohencidence!!) that the first and third stanzas have 13 lines and stanza 2 has only 12??????
1970, Everdale Place (publisher), This Magazine is About Schools, volume 45 more examples
Surely this cannot be deemed a mere Cohencidence. There must be something scientific or theological about it that ought to be investigated.
1939, American Hebrew (publisher), The American Hebrew, volume 146, number 4, page 4Incidentally, if there is a Swan in Ipswich as well, that's a hell of a cohencidence - I remember a very drunken discussion on the Swan in Needham, about that very same topic[1]. IIRC, we eventually decided that there must be some sort of "diced carrot appendix" in the human body, that simply stores all the diced carrot ever eaten by a person, then returns it when needed[2].
1997 July 26, Void, “[I] puke, was FouR Horsemen variants”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)What a Cohencidence! My newest book was published quite recently, too. There is one minor difference though. In my case, I bought it, not wrote it.
2003 October 10, Capa0848, “Where Nobody Knows You're a Music Thief”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet)1st Annual Meeting of Israelien Impersonators, held this inaugural year, amazing — O what a Cohencidence! such cohenesthesia!
2010 May 11, Joshua Cohen, Witz (American Literature Series) (American Literature Series), Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 407Interestingly, the “Holocaust gassing hysteria” didn’t begin until 1967, about the same time that the Jews attacked their Arab neighbors and stole their land — that must be just a big Cohencidence! You’d think that the Holocaust gassing hysteria would have begun in 1945 or 1946!
2019 March 9, rebcar...@gmail.com, “More Holohoaxing”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet)
Origin
Blend of Cohen (common Jewish surname) + coincidence.
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