Meaning of Jewish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Jew.
   proscribed
2. The Hebrew language.
   informal, proscribed
3. Following the religion of Judaism. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures
5. The Yiddish language.
   informal, proscribed
6. Greedy, miserly
7. Yiddish. (Can we verify this sense?)
8. A Jew

Equivalents

Examples

“The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.”

“I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it.”

“We believe that although he speaks Jewish, he speaks Russian quite badly and pretentiously.”

“After a day servicing commercial refrigeration through the five boroughs, Dad would bring home a story of a Chinese waiter on Second Avenue who “speaks Jewish like a Galitzianer,” or of a Mafioso in a Queens fruit market who “has such yiddisher taam, I call him Rabbi Zino.””

“A Jew wearing a cap with a visor and a red scarf around his neck is answering a Jewish woman who has addressed him in Polish: “One speaks Jewish aboard the Jewish tram”. Another butts in: “What about in Hebrew?” “In Hebrew as well”. […] The Jews in Wereszczyn spoke Jewish amongst themselves, and Polish with us. They had their own Jewish accent, but they had a pretty good grasp of the Polish language.”

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