| 释义 |
▪ I. yok slang.|jɒk|
[Yiddish, goy reversed with unvoicing of final consonant.]
A pejorative Jewish term for a non-Jew, a Gentile.
1923A. Yezierska Children of Loneliness 75 She stands there like a yok with her eyes in the air! 1960Times 17 May 17/4 Mr. Faulks..said that on February 10, 1958, Mr. Daniels had said to Mr. Lincoln: ‘Unless you join me and Mr. Jackson against that bloody Yok I will crush you, smash you and drag you into the gutter.’ His Lordship asked the meaning of ‘Yok’ and was told that it was a Yiddish word meaning a Gentile, a rude way of saying a ‘Goy’. A woman member of the jury.—It is not rude. 1969R. Esser Hot Potato 34 My God, this could all be a Nasser plot. And you let this yok into our Intelligence camp! 1970Guardian 21 July 8 Jews..in the arts area are pretty smashing but then some of the yoks are fabulous. 1981R. Samuel East End Underworld vii. 76 There were five Jewish boys in the gang—I was the only ‘Yok’.
▪ II. yok
var. yock n. (and v.) |