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- adjective slang, derogatory ‘
Jewish ’, seen in a derogatory sense;cunning ,supercilious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Clara had always been "ikey", reserved, and superior.
Sons and Lovers 1913
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Clara had always been "ikey", reserved, and superior.
Sons and Lovers 1907
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He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche mothst secred and muravyingly wisechairman-looking.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Your old Country Fair Show takes a back seat when ikey young
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various
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They are a pretty old ikey lot as works 'ere, and so I tell you.'
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Wust of it is, the Boches are so bloomin 'ikey -- they' aven't
With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915
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It was a brand-new bowler, a trifle ikey about the brim.
The Fawn Gloves 1893
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Under his instruction Pol - ikey underwent a course of training, and, being but a boy, was easily induced to perform many evil deeds.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890
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Ifnation/had the misfortuise to enter intQ them, now repent, and would be glad. tp withdraw* But, having made confideraUe payments which they cannot get back, ikey are forced to go on with further payments, in order to avoid lofing all their former ones.
Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing Annuities ... 1773
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