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Yahudi|jəˈhuːdɪ| Also 9 Yahooda, -ee, Yehoodi; Yehudi. [a. Arab. yahūdī, Heb. yehudi Jew n.] In Arabic-speaking or Muslim countries (in form Yahudi), and in some Jewish use, and hence in (chiefly U.S.) slang (in form Yehudi): a. A Jew; Jews. b. attrib. as adj. Jewish.
1823C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. 382 When I was trafficking in Irâk, I had dealings with a certain Yahûdi. 1858Asmonean 19 Mar. 180/3 We are credibly informed that not less than eight hundred families of Yehoodim..are utterly destitute. 1862J. A. Grant Jrnl. 14 Aug. in Walk across Africa (1864) xi. 264 Frij and all Seedees believe that the Jews, or Yahoodee, living in Calcutta, seize people, and tie them up by the heels till blood falls from them into a dish. 1900G. Ade More Fables 117 The flip Yahooda, with the City Education and Thirty Centuries of Commercial Training.., saw that here was a Chance to work off some Old Stock. 1930R. L. Strauss Amer. Remnant 117 Dot mensch certainly knew his bissness..and look at all the Yehudim here too! 1932[see Hubshee n. and a.]. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days i. 16 As far as the Yehudis were concerned I knew the dirt that was being done. Ibid. vi. 83 We ate well, and drank a good Yehudi wine. 1977Washington Post 17 June c–5/3, I see the hate in your eyes, you Yahudi (Jewish) whore, and when we go to work on you, you'll be sorry. |