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A Jew, from the story of Moses leading the Jewish people out of Egypt in the Book of Exodus. [67] Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: безродный космополит) Soviet Union: Jews Soviet epithet as an accusation of lack of full allegiance to the Soviet Union. [68] Sheeny Europe: Jews From Yiddish sheyn or German schön meaning ...
The single-volume Chambers Slang Dictionary (Chambers Harrap) was first published in 1998; a second edition appeared in October 2008. [citation needed]Green's most substantial work in this field is Green's Dictionary of Slang: a three-volume slang work which traces, via examples and citations drawn from the last five centuries, the history of the slang vocabulary from the earliest use of every ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
The Jewish English Lexicon was created by Sarah Bunin Benor, an associate professor of Jewish studies at the Los Angeles division of Hebrew Union College.Benor, a scholar of the varieties of Jewish English spoken in the United States, created the lexicon in 2012 with the support of volunteers who contribute to the growth of the lexicon's database.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
S. S'chach; Sabbatical; Sefer (Hebrew) Sefer Oklah we-Oklah; Selah; Selichot; Sepharad; Seudat Chiyat HaMatim; Seudat nissuin; Sh'erit ha-Pletah; Shabbat; Shabbaton
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