Jewess
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise;[1] equivalent to Jew + -ess.
Noun
[edit]Jewess (plural Jewesses)
- (dated or humorous) A female Jew. [14th c.[1]]
- 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:
- And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
- 1952, Ivanhoe:
- To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?
To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.
What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?
- 2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:
- As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess.
- 2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:
- You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]female Jew
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Jewess”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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