单词 | shylock |
释义 | Shylockn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1786 |
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