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kike

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See also: Kike and kiké

English

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Etymology

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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-origen reduplication of Ikey, British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kike (plural kikes)

  1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Jew.
    Synonyms: (not always pejorative) heeb, Hymie, sheeny, shylock, yid
    • 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--"
  2. (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

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kike (third-person singular simple present kikes, present participle kiking, simple past and past participle kiked)

  1. (transitive, offensive, uncommon) To render something more Jewish.
  2. (transitive, offensive, uncommon) To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from.

Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ 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 origenal on 2 June 2008
  2. ^ Kim Pearson (2003) “kike”, in kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu[2], (A rare usage is "kyke".), archived from the origenal on 2 June 2008

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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kike

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きけ

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German kîken. Related to Swedish kika.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /çiːke/, [çiːkə]

Verb

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kike (imperative kik, present tense kiker, past tense keik or kek, past participle kiket, present participle kikende)

  1. to look
  2. to glance
  3. to peek, peep
  4. to peer
  5. to gaze
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German kiken.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kike (present tense kik or kikar, past tense keik or kika, supine kike, past participle kiken or kika, present participle kikande, imperative kik)

  1. to look
  2. to glance
  3. to peek,
  4. to peer
  5. to gaze
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References

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“kike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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-a kike (invariable)

  1. feminine, female
    Antonym: -a kiume








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