| 释义 |
Yid slang.|jɪd|
Also † Yit(t.
[Back-formation f. next.]
A (usu. offensive) name for a Jew.
1874Hotten Slang Dict. 344 Yid, or Yit, a Jew. Yidden, the Jewish people. The Jews use these terms very frequently. a1890Sporting Times (Leland), I might, if I had poached upon the province of the Pitcher, Have devoted just a verse or two to love among the Yids. 1898[see schlemiel]. 1912G. Frankau One of Us vi. 53 As the Yid Knows well the slump-signs ere the slump convulses. 1935[see crap n.1 7 b]. 1940E. Pound Cantos lii. 11 Sin drawing vengeance, poor yitts paying for―. 1946Koestler Thieves in Night 279, I became a socialist because I hated the poor; and I became a Hebrew because I hated the Yid. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iii. 180 Then she went and married a yid. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 203 Then they go to a synagogue late at night,..and make Yid noises, praying. |