kike

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(Английский)

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/kaɪk/

The most dominant theory is 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. Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of Ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.