kike
Plural: kikes
Noun
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
- A Jew.
- A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.
Verb
- To render something more Jewish.
- To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from.
Examples
- "That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food."
Origin / Etymology
Thought to be from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X. The latter symbol was associated by these Jews with the Christian cross, a symbol that, to them, represented millennia of persecution. This is the dominant etymological theory, but there are others, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase ‘Ikey-Kikey’, an American-origin reduplication of Ikey, British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.
Scrabble Score: 12
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Words With Friends Score: 0
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