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Meanings of jew in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hebrew"
Examples for "hebrew"
1
Masha's Hebrew is now quite good; Volodya is more comfortable with English.
2
The shop signs were in foreign tongues; in some streets all Hebrew.
3
I used to go to Hebrew classes with him many years ago.
4
Stories of lust abound in the Hebrew Scriptures; Genesis alone has five.
5
That name came from the initials of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
1
It was thus a counterbalance to the idolatrous nature of Israelite religion.
2
The nobility of Egypt will not accept an unbeliever and an Israelite.
3
On a sudden Masanath raised her head and gazed at the Israelite.
4
She was an Israelite, an infidel and a reviler of the gods.
5
Rachel followed him, and the old Israelite watched them with brilliant eyes.
1
It had a sheeny surface of some substance Howard did not know.
2
They dealt in jewels, and cloth of gold, and sheeny satins.
3
The old woman in question turned a pair of sheeny eyes towards the speaker.
4
Two heavy plaits lay like sheeny snakes over her bosom and the white sheet.
5
She was silent, and her eye fell and rested on the sheeny damask beneath.
1
He looked like a kike to me, the President said shrewdly.
2
I think about that kike Richie Lewis and I get sore.
3
There's not a human bone in that kike's body.
4
Me friends with a rich kike pawnbroker?
5
In his mind he was saying: "A kike and a frog, that's a good combination."
1
If the man accepts the call, Hymie knows he has a prospect.
2
I hear a lot about the Americana.' Hymie says, 'The Americana?
3
He hoped the peddler would be home but only his son Hymie was.
4
There was nothing to do but to go and see Uncle Hymie again.
5
Then Uncle Hymie coughed a little nervously and replied: We're not quite sure yet.
1
Get up and walk, you chiselin' little yid.
2
By the time we get finished with the spook and the yid, they won't know what happened.
3
Are you a fuckin' yid or not?
4
Some yid trick, it was.
5
The book featured several notorious masturbation scenes and a narrator who declared he wanted to "put the id back in yid."
Usage of jew in English
1
It was good to be Hungarian, good to be a Hungarian Jew.
2
This was common knowledge to every Jew in the city, including Moseh.
3
Polish undergraduates killed an old Jew in the Sliska Street in Warsaw.
4
That American Jew activist, Rabbi Goldberg, has been in Germany again recently.
5
The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order:
6
Only Hershel Mak and the Jew in the light-grey cloak walked calmly.
7
The monk recoiled a step and looked at the Jew in surprise.
8
Nothing that would make you think straight away, of course, a Jew.
9
The Jew laid Upon the table fifty crowns in bright new silver.
10
Avram Ferris, a fifty-six-year-old Orthodox Jew, had gone missing a week earlier.
11
For the Russian Jew the defeat of Germany was a vital necessity.
12
The men gasped, the Jew snickered, the lookout straightened in his chair.
13
The red man is a Jew; a Jew is a red man.
14
But the other girl and the Jew drummer had punched the breeze.
15
The next day the traveller prepared a feast and invited the Jew.
16
Just imagine: Samuel the individual, Samuel the soldier, and Samuel the Jew.
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Jew through the time
Jew across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common