• (British, America) IPA: /d͡ʒuː/

Transferred use of Jew.

jew (jews, present participle jewing; simple past and past participle jewed)

1. (offensive)
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:jew.

• jew down

jew (plural jews)

1. (AU) The jewfish. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:

     The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

2. (offensive)

From Middle English Jew, Giu, Giw, Ju, from Old French juiu, Giu, gyu, from Latin iūdaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος, from Ἰουδά, Ἰούδας + -ιος, from hbo יְהוּדָה.

• enPR: jo͞o, IPA: /d͡ʒuː/

jew (plural jews)

1. An adherent of Judaism.

   Both Jews and Muslims refrain from eating pork.

   Synonyms: Judaist

   Antonyms: gentile, goy

   Hypernyms: Abrahamist, Judeo-Christian, monotheist

   Hyponyms: halakhist, Orthodox Jew, rabbi

2. A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

   Many Jews eat bagels.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:Jew

   Antonyms: gentile, goy

   Hypernyms: Hebrew, Israelite

   Hyponyms: Ashkenazi, Jewess, Mizrahi, Romaniote, Sephardi

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs
     dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
     the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
     to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
     warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
     as a Christian is?

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     The wrongs of a Jew are not lightly forgotten, for the race can both love and hate.

3. (pejorative) A miserly or greedy person; a cheapskate.
   • 2010, Matthew S. Hiley, Hubris Falls, page 111:

     “Jesus, Williams, you're such a Jew,” Jimmy said in an annoyed, high-pitched tone. “Have you ever just paid a check, or do you always make an ass of yourself?”

4. (naval, slang) A ship's tailor.

• French: juif, juive
• German: Jude, Jüdin
• Italian: giudeo, giudea, ebreo, ebrea
• Portuguese: judeu, judia
• Russian: иуде́й
• Spanish: judío, judía

• French: Juif, Juive
• German: Jude, Jüdin
• Portuguese: judeu, hebreu
• Russian: евре́й
• Spanish: judío, judía, judíos, judías

1. Surname.

jew

1. (offensive) Jewish.

jew (jews, present participle jewing; simple past and past participle jewed)

1. (chiefly, offensive, transitive) To make (more) Jewish.
   • 1991, E. Sicher, ''The Jewing of Skylock: Wesker's The Merchant” (MLS 21 (1991), 57–69)
2. (ambitransitive, offensive) To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal (from someone).
   • 1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:

     They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.