α. 1500s–1600s Iewes towne, 1700s– Jews town, 1700s– Jews' town.
β. 1700s– Jew town.
γ. 1700s– Jew's town.
单词 | jew town |
释义 | Jew townn.α. 1500s–1600s Iewes towne, 1700s– Jews town, 1700s– Jews' town. β. 1700s– Jew town. γ. 1700s– Jew's town. colloquial (now potentially offensive even when used without derogatory intent). A name for: an area inhabited predominantly by Jewish people. In later use, esp. such an area within a larger urban environment; a neighbourhood with predominantly Jewish residents. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > inhabited by similar people > Jewish Jewryc1325 Jew town1592 ghetto1611 Jewish quarter1658 mellah1809 Judaism1851 eruv1963 1592 P. F. tr. Hist. Dr. Faustus xxii. 41 Unto this is adioyning the Iewes Towne, wherein are thirteene thousand men, women, and Children, all Iewes. 1612 E. Grimeston tr. L. T. de Mayerne Gen. Hist. Spaine v. 156 Eliberis, in old time a great and well peopled citie.., built and inhabited by the Iewes, and therefore was called the Iewes towne. 1736 London Spy Revived 1 Sept. 1/1 A Place..called the Jews Town, because it is inhabited by none but that Nation, and Armenians. 1799 Sun 16 Aug. A fire broke out last night in the Jew-town. 1890 Chicago Tribune 24 Dec. 5 His description of Jewtown and its sweat-shops, in which miserable Jews spend eighteen hours a day at slop-work for the clothing manufacturers. 1949 I. Shulman Cry Tough! i. 22 In any of the hundreds of slum neighborhoods: in Jewtown, Micktown, Wop-town, Hunkytown, Niggertown. 1976 J. Charyn Marilyn the Wild (1990) i. iv. 53 The little bastards..run home to Jewtown so they can eat their kosher baloney. 1986 D. Marcus Land not Theirs (1993) iii. 37 Celtic Crescent was now the centre of Cork's ‘Jewtown’. 2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Apr. (Travel section) 3 Although there are only a handful of Jewish families still left in Kochi.., the area round the synagogue is still called Jewtown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592 |
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