kike
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.[1] 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.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kike (plural kikes)
- (US, offensive, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Jew.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt:
- "Now you quit kidding me! What's the nice little name?" "Oh, it ain't so darn nice. I guess it's kind of kike. But my folks ain't kikes. My papa's papa was a nobleman in Poland, and there was a gentleman in here one day, he was kind of a count or something--"
- (US, offensive) A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.
- Synonym: see Thesaurus:miser
- That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food.
Verb[edit]
kike (third-person singular simple present kikes, present participle kiking, simple past and past participle kiked)
- (transitive, offensive, uncommon) To render something more Jewish.
- (transitive, offensive, uncommon) To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from.
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Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ Rosten, Leo (1968) The Joys of Yiddish, New York: Pocket Books Cited in Kim Pearson (2003) “kike”, in kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu[1], (A rare usage is "kyke".), archived from the original on 2 June 2008
- ^ Kim Pearson (2003) “kike”, in kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu[2], (A rare usage is "kyke".), archived from the original on 2 June 2008
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Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kike
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German kîken. Related to Swedish kika.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
kike (imperative kik, present tense kiker, past tense keik or kek, past participle kiket, present participle kikende)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “kike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German kiken.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
kike (present tense kik or kikar, past tense keik or kika, supine kike, past participle kiken or kika, present participle kikande, imperative kik)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
“kike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swahili[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective[edit]
-a kike (invariable)
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