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/d͡ʒuː/
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dʒuː
Noun
An adherent of Judaism.
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Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.
A member or descendant of the Jewish people.
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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?
The wrongs of a Jew are not lightly forgotten, for the race can both love and hate.
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A young Australian Jew engaged on the trip of a lifetime finally arrives in the homeland of his people.
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.
There are Jews who consider themselves White and Jews who are people of color.
The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.
A miserly or greedy person; a cheapskate.
Usage- Derogatory
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“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?”
A ship's tailor.
Usage- Slang
Proper noun
A surname.
Adjective
Jewish.
Usage- Derogatory
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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.
"Started that Jew country on top of everything else, and then all hell broke loose ever since."
Verb
To make (more) Jewish.
Usage- Offensive
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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,[…]
In both cases, the Jews used Blacks as political weapons to wreck healthy White countries.
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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.
To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal (from someone).
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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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.
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me / Kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me.
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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.
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,[…]
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[…]
Noun
a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties