kike

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A Jew.
2. A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.

Verb

1. To render something more Jewish.
2. To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from.

Synonyms

yid

hymie

sheeny

Israelite

Jew

jude

Moses

poor

hebe

hook-nose

jew

Yid

Yehudi

Heeb

Hebrew

Iddy

Hebe

hooknose

Isaac

Jewess

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kaɪk/

Etimologia (English)

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 represented to them 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.