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单词 shylock
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Shylockn.

Brit. /ˈʃʌɪlɒk/, U.S. /ˈʃaɪˌlɑk/
Etymology: < the name of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
Allusively. An extortionate usurer. Also: a Jew; a pawnbroker; in U.S. (with lower-case initial), an abusive term for a moneylender; = loan-shark n. at loan n.1 Compounds 2. (These uses are considered offensive.) Also attributive.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew
JudeishOE
Judew?a1160
Jewa1225
Jew mana1382
Israelitec1384
Hebrewc1450
Hebraean1509
Christ-killer1532
Hebrician1542
Jacobinea1625
Shylock1786
Jew boy1796
sheeny1824
ikey1836
Moses1844
Yahudi1858
Yiddisher1859
Yid1874
Semite1881
mocky1893
kike1901
five-to-two1914
Jewy1914
shonicker1914
ikeymo1922
non-Aryan1922
non-Aryan1924
four-by-two1936
shonk1938
bagel1956
Hymie1956
mock1967
yiddo1972
the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who
wringera1300
askera1325
extortionerc1375
exactor1382
scaffer?a1513
shaver1534
caterpillar1541
bloodsucker?1555
suck-purse1586
griper1587
extortor1590
exacter1596
extorter1605
barathrum1609
wreather1648
shark1713
vampire1741
bleeder1846
flayer1865
extortionist1885
Shylock1894
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest > at excessive rates
money shark1844
Shylock1894
loan-shark1905
shylocker1973
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one with whom pawn deposited > pawnbroker
fulker1568
broker1583
uncle1606
pawnbroker1658
lumberer1802
dolly-man1851
pawn1851
nunky1875
Shylock1930
1786 R. Cumberland Observer III. lxiv. 30 Smoke the Jew!.. Out with Shylock.
1894 A. C. Gunter King's Stockbroker ii. 24 ‘Won't I beggar my boarders!’ With this Shylock idea in his mind,..Lanty cries excitedly to a waiter.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 1/3 The essence of the real Shylock's business is that he extorts money from his victims on threats of various kinds.
1898 W. J. Locke Idols vi. 81 He could raise the money, cry quits with the urbane and gentle-mannered Shylock.
1901 F. H. Skrine Life Sir W. W. Hunter xiv. 261 The peasantry must be delivered from thraldom to village Shylocks.
1930 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 5 Apr. 48/1 There are also guys present who are called Shylocks, because they will lend you dough when you go broke at the table, on watches or rings..at very good interest.
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Dec. 1/3 The jury held the backbone of the ‘shylock’ or usury racket had been broken in the city by Dewey.
1951 Turkus & Feder Murder, Inc. v. 121 ‘Sometimes it's as good as 3,000 per cent,’ one of the shylocks..explained.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 346 Today, children colloquially refer to a Jew as a Yid, Shylock, or Hooknose.
1972 Report to Commissioner 121 The Panthers are worse than the shylocks... They keep bleeding you.
1976 Sunday Times (Lagos) 1 Aug. 21/4 They are expected to alleviate the suffering of the common man who for long has been a victim of Shylock landlords.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters iv. 150 A member who couldn't meet his shylock payments often found that the union people he ‘elected’, became enforcers against him.

Derivatives

ˈShylock v. transitive to force (a person) to repay a debt, esp. at an exorbitant rate of interest.
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society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)] > collect debt > demand or force to pay debt
dun?1648
to put (also keep) the screw (also screws) on1659
Shylock1930
1930 H. G. Wells Autocracy Mr. Parham iv. v. 308 They bullied and quarrelled when we were only too ready for acquiescent action. They Shylocked Europe.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xiii. 242 One or two of them have had a bit of hard luck lately, and one can't Shylock the poor devils.
ˈshylocker n. U.S. a person who charges an exorbitant rate of interest.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest > at excessive rates
money shark1844
Shylock1894
loan-shark1905
shylocker1973
1973 J. Gores Final Notice xii. 73 He's an enforcer for a shylocker..with lots of sweet loans to push the vigorish up.
Shyˈlockian adj.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > extremely
Jewish1606
poll-groat1745
Shylockya1818
Shylockian1884
1884 Truth 4 Sept. 374/1 The terms paid for accommodation were so onerous that the bargain had been a Shylockian one.
ˈshylocking n. U.S.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > exorbitant
shylocking1951
loan-sharking1970
1951 Turkus & Feder Murder, Inc. v. 120 Loan-sharking. ‘Shylocking’, it is called.
1961 Brooklyn Law Rev. XXVIII. 41 Such activities are the ‘shakedown racket’, ‘shylocking’ (where interest of 20% per week is charged..) and labor extortion.
1973 Listener 27 Jan. 878/3 Today's Dillinger..controls vice, dope and shylocking (usury) throughout his State.
ˈShylocky adj. after the manner of or characteristic of Shylock.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > extremely
Jewish1606
poll-groat1745
Shylockya1818
Shylockian1884
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 50 It had such a kind of Shylocky taste of raw flesh about it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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