Jew Yorkn.
/ˌdʒuː ˈjɔːk/, U.S. /ˌdʒu ˈjɔrk/ slang (derogatory and offensive).
A name for: New York.With derogatory reference to the large number of Jewish people resident in New York.
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1911 Cosmopolitan Mag. May 865/1 The joke-smiths call the city Jew York or New Cork, according as the jest shifts toward the Hebraic or the Hibernian.
1913 G. B. McCutcheon Fool & his Money xvi. 294 ‘Dutch ancestors are the proper thing in Jew York.’ ‘Jappie,’ said his mother severely, ‘how often must I caution you not to speak of New York as Jew York? Some day you will say it to a Jew.’
1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead ii. iii. 69 For two weeks he had heard Conn talk about..the terrible fact that Jew York was in the hands of foreigners.
1990 A. H. Vachss Blossom (1991) cxxvii. 237 Maybe it ain't as bad as Jew York yet around here, but we're workin' on it.
2009 J. Ellroy Blood's a Rover (2010) 36 Her husband was a lefty lawyer in Jew York.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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