Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a disparaging term for a Jew.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
kick. Chaucer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A derogatory name for a jew, usually intended and taken as disparaging and offensive.
- intransitive verb obsolete To gaze; to stare.
- verb obsolete To kick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, highly offensive A
Jew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike.
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike.
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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This manifested itself in the insertion of some tiny-but-still-legible phrases including the word 'kike' into American Vogue at the side of an illustration about New York society.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Jewish students in upstate New York report that their daily high school experience includes being called "kike," hearing accusations that they killed Christ, listening to Holocaust "jokes" and having coins thrown at them.
Maureen Costello: Whoopi's White Noise Comes with a Study Guide Maureen Costello 2011
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Jewish students in upstate New York report that their daily high school experience includes being called "kike," hearing accusations that they killed Christ, listening to Holocaust "jokes" and having coins thrown at them.
Maureen Costello: Whoopi's White Noise Comes with a Study Guide Maureen Costello 2011
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Jewish students in upstate New York report that their daily high school experience includes being called "kike," hearing accusations that they killed Christ, listening to Holocaust "jokes" and having coins thrown at them.
Maureen Costello: Whoopi's White Noise Comes with a Study Guide Maureen Costello 2011
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Jewish students in upstate New York report that their daily high school experience includes being called "kike," hearing accusations that they killed Christ, listening to Holocaust "jokes" and having coins thrown at them.
Maureen Costello: Whoopi's White Noise Comes with a Study Guide Maureen Costello 2011
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"A kike is the Jewish gentleman who just left the room."
Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless Ed Gorman 2009
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Jewish students in upstate New York report that their daily high school experience includes being called "kike," hearing accusations that they killed Christ, listening to Holocaust "jokes" and having coins thrown at them.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Maureen Costello 2011
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The vituperative and contemptuous appellation kike, started, as such epithets often do, in a fairly innocuous way.
grandpa27 commented on the word kike
Somewhere in the past, I learned that KIKEL was an emigration notation for Jews leaving the ship. Somebody with more research ability than I can confirm. Kikel may be of Yiddish origin. You might check the Dictionary of American Slang.
April 9, 2009
grandpa27 commented on the word kike
According to Leo Rosten,
“ The word kike was born on Ellis Island when Jewish immigrants who were illiterate (or could not use Roman-English letters), when asked to sign the entry-forms with the customary 'X,'* refused, because they associated an X with the cross of Christianity, and instead made a circle. The Yiddish word for 'circle' is kikel (pronounced KY-kul), and for 'little circle,' kikeleh (pronounced ky-kul-uh. Before long the immigration inspectors were calling anyone who signed with an 'O' instead of an 'X' a kikel or kikeleh or kikee or, finally and succinctly, kike.3
From Google Mack Kelly
April 9, 2009