cohencidence

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noun

Something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nouncohencidence (plural cohencidences)

plural cohencidences

  1. 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 4
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    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 4

    Incidentally, 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 407

    Interestingly, 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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