Meaning of Jappy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Japanese
   slang
2. Materialistic and shallow in a way stereotypically associated with Jewish women.
   not-comparable

Examples

“To be really Jappy...”

“When George moved to London later that year Jennie received him at her home, wearing a loose Japanese kimono instead of the conventional whale-boned corset and gown. The young, infatuated lieutenant wrote ecstatically of the 'lovely Jappy gown'.”

“... erasing the term from society's consciousness without changing Jewish women's "Jappy" behavior makes about as much sense as a campaign to eradicate lung cancer while insisting on people's right to smoke.”

“1992, Janice L. Booker, Yale Strom, The Expulsion of the Jews: Five Hundred Years of Exodus, Spi Books Trade Nora once described a neighbor who was a convert to Judaism . “ She converted the whole way , ” she said . “ She is as Jappy as anybody on the block.”

“It was then that I began associating being Jewish with being Jappy and snobbish.”

“Evelyn Torton Beck writes, "I have repeatedly heard young Jewish women admit that they would be offended to be called 'too Jewy,' but claim not to mind being called 'too Jappy.' "”

“I got my rap down with the Jewish girls. I was foreign to them, I didn't dress well. The jappier the better.”

“Today, the stereotype is no longer immediately associated with Jews, as in Legally Blonde or Beverly Hills 90210 or The O.C., where the Jappiest characters are not even Jewish.”

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