Jewish
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Jew + -ish. Compare Middle English Judewissh (“Jewish”), Old English Iūdēisċ (“Jewish”), Dutch joodsch, joods (“Jewish”), German jüdisch (“Jewish”), Danish jødisk (“Jewish”), Swedish judisk (“Jewish”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks, “Jewish”). See also Yiddish.
Base: Jew
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: Jewisher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more Jewish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: Jewishest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most Jewish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Jooish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
derogatory
humorous
form: Juish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
derogatory
humorous
form: juish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
derogatory
humorous
form: Jewishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Following the religion of Judaism.
pos: adj
examples: There are many Jewish people in France.
Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
gloss: Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.
pos: adj
examples: I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday.
The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.
gloss: Greedy, miserly.
pos: adj
tags: dated
derogatory
offensive
examples: "Vanity!" ſays ſhe, haughtily, "What is vanity in you, ſir, is propriety in me. You aſk a Jewiſh price for it, Mr. Graves; but have it I will, if only to ſpite Mr. Eſmond."
gloss: Yiddish.
pos: adj
examples: The roots of American Jewry are not in the Middle East but in Europe—their Jewish style, their strong Jewish words, their strong nostalgia, their actual, weighable history, all this issues from their European origins. Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing Jew, who complained not in an antique tongue called Hebrew but in colorful, rich, vernacular Yiddish.
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
examples: The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.
Derived words: anti-Jewish
Blewish
Bluish
crypto-Jewish
is the Pope Jewish
Jewish Alps
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish badge
Jewish Bible
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish calendar
Jewish champagne
Jewish colony
Jewish English
Jewish flag
Jewish hereness
Jewishish
Jewish lightning
Jewish Literary Aramaic
Jewishly
Jewishness
Jewish nose
Jewish occupation government
Jewish overdrive
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Jewish penicillin
Jewish piano
Jewish Question
Jewish rye bread
Jewish Science
Jewish Standard Time
Jewish state
Jewish tax
Jewish typewriter
Jewishy
Jewish Zionism
non-Jewish
Orthodox Jewish
pro-Jewish
pseudo-Jewish
quasi-Jewish
semi-Jewish
un-Jewish
unjewish
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