单词 | jew broker |
释义 | > as lemmasJew broker C1. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is a Jewish person’, as in Jew agitator, Jew broker, Jew physician, Jew merchant, etc. Now chiefly derogatory and offensive.In early use sometimes used as a simple designation without specific derogatory intent (though often in depreciative contexts). Jewish is the more acceptable equivalent term.In some cases, esp. in later use, Jew could instead be interpreted as an adjective. ΚΠ a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 84 And crucify his Saviour worse Than those Jew-Troopers, that threw out, When they were raffling for his coat. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 403/1 Dr. Bass, a noted Jew Physician in St Mary Axe. 1779 St. James's Chron. 30 Oct. The Jew Brokers, who frighten weak-minded Stockholders with some bloody bad News, and then pick their Pockets. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 390/1 The vitals are eaten out of Old England by subsidies, loan-contractors, and Jew-jobbers. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Let. 7 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1982) 202 A street like those occupied by Jew clothesmen in Wapping. 1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 31 Oct. (1988) I. 206 Burnham is a Jew merchant, named Lawson (sc. Levi-sohn?). 1996 E. A. Proulx Accordion Crimes (1997) 114 When a klezmer band arrived in town.., the sheriff told them to keep traveling, no Jew agitators wanted in Prank. 2003 I. Bashiri tr. I. Soatov in From Hymns of Zarathustra to Songs of Borbad ii. 212 There were physicians from Greece, Rome, India working here and a lot of Jew physicians too. < as lemmas |
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