# kike
## English
### Etymology

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. 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaɪk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪk

### Noun

kike (plural kikes)
* (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--"
* (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

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.

#### Derived terms

* kike dyke
* kikeface
* kikeish
* kikeroach
* kikesucker

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Rosten, Leo (1968) The Joys of Yiddish, New York: Pocket Books Cited in Kim Pearson (2003) “kike”, in kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu‎, (A rare usage is "kyke".), archived from the original on 2 June 2008
* ↑ Kim Pearson (2003) “kike”, in kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu‎, (A rare usage is "kyke".), archived from the original on 2 June 2008

### Further reading

* kike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* ekki

## Japanese
### Romanization

kike
* Rōmaji transcription of きけ

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* kikke

### Etymology

From Middle Low German kîken. Related to Swedish kika.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /çiːke/, [çiːkə]

### Verb

kike (imperative kik, present tense kiker, past tense keik or kek, past participle kiket, present participle kikende)
* to look
* to glance
* to peek, peep
* to peer
* to gaze

#### Related terms

* kikkert

### References

* “kike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* kika
* kikke
* kikka

### Etymology

From Middle Low German kiken.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²çiːkə/

### Verb

kike (present tense kik or kikar, past tense keik or kika, supine kike, past participle kiken or kika, present participle kikande, imperative kik)
* to look
* to glance
* to peek,
* to peer
* to gaze

#### Related terms

* kikkert
* utkikstønne

### References

“kike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

-a kike (invariable)
* feminine, female
    Antonym: -a kiume