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单词 Jewishness
释义

Jew /joo/

noun
  1. A member of a Semitic people practising a monotheistic religion
  2. An Israelite
  3. A usurer, miser, someone who drives a hard bargain (offensive)
adjective (derogatory or offensive)

Jewish

transitive verb and intransitive verb (old; offensive; also without cap)

To haggle (with) or get the better of in a bargain

ORIGIN: OFr Jueu, from L Jūdaeus, from Gr Ioudaios, from Heb Yehūdāh Judah

Jewˈess noun (offensive when used by non-Jews)

A Jewish woman

Jewˈish adjective

  1. Of the Jews or their religion
  2. Extortionate, money-grubbing (offensive)

Jewˈishly adverb

Jewˈishness noun

Jewˈry noun

  1. The Jewish world, community or religion
  2. Judaea (archaic)
  3. A district inhabited by Jews (historical).

Jewˈ-baiting noun

The persecuting of Jews

jewˈfish noun

A name for several very large American and Australian fishes

Jew'sˈ-ear noun

An ear-like fungus (genus Auricularia) parasitic on elder and other trees

Jew's eye noun

Something of very high value (Shakespeare ‘worth a Jewe's eye’; from the practice of torturing Jews for money)

Jew's-frankˈincense noun

Benzoin

Jew's-harpˈ or Jews'-harpˈ or Jew's-trumpˈ or Jews'-trumpˈ noun

(also without cap) a small lyre-shaped instrument played against the teeth by plucking a metal tongue with the finger

Jews' houses or leavings plural noun

In Cornwall, remains of prehistoric miners' dwellings, mine refuse, and tin furnaces

Jew's mallow noun

  1. A yellow-flowered plant, Kerria japonica (family Rosaceae)
  2. (Jews' mallow) jute, Corchorus olitorius

Jew's-myrˈtle noun

Butcher's broom

Jew'sˈ-pitch noun

Asphalt

Jew'sˈ-stone noun

A large fossil sea-urchin spine

Jews' thorn noun

Christ's thorn

wandering Jew see under wander

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