Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb offensive To bargain shrewdly or unfairly with. Often used with down.
- transitive verb offensive To haggle so as to reduce (a price). Often used with down.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Hebrew; an Israelite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.
- noun An adherent of Judaism.
- noun gum styrax, or benzoin.
- noun (Bot.) an annual herb (
Corchorus olitorius ) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber. - noun asphaltum; bitumen.
- noun an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to Christ during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.
- noun any of several house plants of the genera Zebrina and Tradescantia having white-striped leaves, especially the creeping plants
Zebrina pendula andTradescantia fluminensis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb offensive To
bargain , to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; todefraud .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Martin telling the jarvey to drive ahead and the citizen bawling and Alf and Joe at him to whisht and he on his high horse about the jews and the loafers calling for a speech and Jack Power trying to get him to sit down on the car and hold his bloody jaw and a loafer with a patch over his eye starts singing _If the man in the moon was a jew, jew, jew_ and
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Put them together -- what a excellent lookin 'jew!
Adam Sandler Hanukkah Song - Video, Lyrics : emusicality.com admin 2009
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Starman: Do you really want to say that an Orthodox jew is more “serious” than a Conservative jew is more “serious” than a Reform jew?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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Starman: Do you really want to say that an Orthodox jew is more “serious” than a Conservative jew is more “serious” than a Reform jew?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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Do you really want to say that an Orthodox jew is more “serious” than a Conservative jew is more “serious” than a Reform jew?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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Put them together -- what a excellent lookin 'jew!
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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July 28th, 2006 at 5: 53 pm hister says: one jew is too many
Think Progress » Bush: American Foreign Policy No Longer Seeks to ‘Manage Calm’ 2006
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You seem to have no problems killing Arabs, but anyone killing a jew is seen by you as a terrorist.
Think Progress » What Bush Knew: More Evidence That He Deliberately Misled 2005
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Stop running these Howard posts … that jew is as irrelevant as Gilbert Gottfried
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I know as a jew, im not supposed to idol worship, but I could really go for something in a parting of the red sea theme, with a wave border print placed at a deep v for the "parting" and a giant Moses portrait on the back.
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