shonicker

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noun

A Jew.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounshonicker (plural shonickers)

plural shonickers · alternative shoniker · alternative shonikker · alternative shonnicker · alternative shonniker · alternative schonocker

  1. USdatedethnicoffensiveslurA Jew.

    He'd cried out, in the last scrap, urging Benny to demolish a Jew, ‘Hit him, he's only a shonicker.’

    1979, James Wreford Watson, quoting James T. Farrell, “The Jewish Scapegoat”, in Social geography of the United States, Longman, →ISBN, page 92
    2 more examples

    “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.

    1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156

    “You and I are expendable here, Charlie,” Humboldt said. “Why? I'll tell you. We're Jews, shonickers, kikes. Here in Princeton, we're no threat to Sewell.”

    1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 124

Origin

  1. Yiddish[Term?]“small trader”
  2. Englishshonicker

From Yiddish [Term?] (“small trader”).

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