jew

See also: Jew

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuː/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: Jew, dew
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

Transferred use of Jew.

Alternative forms

• Jew

Verb

jew (third-person singular simple present jews, present participle jewing, simple past and past participle jewed)

1. (offensive) Alternative letter-case form of Jew
   • 2001 September 24, Donald R. Bernard, John Goldsmith, Bullion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 162:

     'You're jewing me on the price, right? Well get this and get it good, I don't get jewed. Not by anybody.' Dan, who had lost the toss and taken the call, wished John a Merry Christmas. The advent of Christmas compounded their problems.

   • 2004 June 20, Victor, “The Ten Truths: On Jewish Lawyers & the Jewing of Law”, in alt.california‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Nevertheless, decisions used to be rendered based on long-honored
     White traditions or "precedent," and supported by reason and logic. In
     today's jewed system, by contrast, one is more apt to read a legal
     opinion which cites U.N. resolutions or jewish sociologists than
     Black's Law Dictionary.

   • 2015 May 12, Herbert Burkholz, Writer-in-Residence, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     “By God, you're jewing me, that's what it is.” “Take it or leave it.” “Oh, I take it, but you're jewing me.” Max made a sweeping motion with his hand and the two women came down the bar to join them. When he told Helga that everything […]

   • 2017 March 28, Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:

     “And listen to me well: if you're jewing me somehow, you're gonna find yourself chasing your own head around Shower C before the week's out.” “Yes, I understand that,” Andy said softly. And he did [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:jew.

Derived terms

• jew down
• jew out
• jew up

 

Noun

jew (plural jews)

1. (Australia) The jewfish. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:

     The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

2. (offensive) Alternative letter-case form of Jew (“a Jewish person”)
   • 2004 December 21, Will McDonald, “The Jewing of Christmas”, in alt.california‎^[2] (Usenet):

     It is jews behind the campaign to destroy it, admits WND^[sic] house jew.
     Just as we WN^[sic] have said all along.

Etymology 2

Phrase

jew

1. Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
2. Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

   How jew do that? ("How'd you do that?")

Anagrams

• jwé

Maltese

FWOTD – 16 September 2016

Etymology

From Arabic أَوْ (ʔaw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛw/

Conjunction

jew

1. or
   • 2020 October 16, “Il-WHO: “Il-mediċina remdisivir bi ftit jew l-ebda effett fuq il-kura mill-Covid-19””, in iNews Malta‎^[3], archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

     Il-mediċina remdisivir għandha ftit jew l-ebda effett fuq iċ-ċansijiet li pazjenti jfiqu mill-Covid-19. Dan jirriżulta minn studju ppubblikat mill-Organizzazzjoni Dinjija għas-Saħħa.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. else

Derived terms

• jonkella (jankella)