Yekkeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈjɛkə/, U.S.

/ˈjɛkə/,

/ˈjɛki/

Inflections: Plural yekkes, yekim Brit.

/ˈjɛkɪm/, U.S.

/ˈjɛkɪm/.

Forms: 1900s– Yecke, 1900s– Yekke, 1900s– Yekkie (U.S.). Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Hebrew. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Yiddish. Etymons: Hebrew yeke; Yiddish yeke.

Etymology: < either (i) modern Hebrew yeke or perhaps its etymon (ii) Yiddish yeke, further etymology uncertain and disputed.Further etymology. There are many suggestions for the etymology of the Yiddish word, most of them clearly folk-etymological. One suggestion derives it < German regional (Rhineland) Jeck , Jecke fool (also in extended self-deprecating use ‘human being’), regional variant of Geck (see geck n.¹). The widely circulated suggestion that it is < German Jacke coat, jacket (see jack n.¹), with reference to the shorter jackets worn by Jewish people of Western European, e.g. German, origin, whereas the coats worn by Eastern European Jews were typically longer, poses formal problems and is unconvincing (as likewise is the similar explanation offered in quot. 1950 at sense B.); similarly unconvincing is a derivation < a pet form of the male forename Jacob (see Jacob n.). Specific forms. The form Yekkie probably reflects an irregular spelling in English rather than any influence of -y suffix⁶. In plural form yekim after the modern Hebrew plural form.

slang (often mildly depreciative).

A. adj.

Chiefly in Israeli Jewish usage: designating a Jewish person of German origin; of, relating to, or characteristic of Jewish people of German origin.Frequently with connotations of meticulousness, orderliness, punctuality, and obedience.

ΚΠ

1949 National Jewish Post 29 July (Indiana ed.) On the way to Tel Aviv, a young yekke girl from Ginegar, one of those who had come from Germany.

1969 Israel Mag. 2 iv. 26/2 The professor, in his fastidious Yekke accent, countered: ‘And if I close the window, will it be warm outside?’

1990 Jerusalem Rep. (Nexis) 15 Nov. 52 In his 1902 novel ‘Altneuland’.., Herzl's utopian vision of a Jewish commonwealth is a Vienna of the Levant, a yekke paradise where even the Arabs speak German.

2009 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 May (Features section) 20 Esthetics and order, politeness and cleanliness, were Yekke traits, not always copied by the rest of us.

B. n.

Chiefly in Israeli Jewish usage: a Jewish person of German origin.Frequently with connotations of meticulousness, orderliness, punctuality, and obedience.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area

the Dispersion1382

Oriental Jew1659

diaspora1694

Polack1834

Ashkenazim1839

Hebraist1892

Litvak1892

Peruvian Jew1897

Tudesco1897

halutzim1921

Yemenite1926

Ostjuden1934

Sabra1945

Yekke1950

refusenik1973

1950 G. Mikes Milk & Honey 34 Another important group are the Germans, commonly called Yekke (from Jacke, i.e. jacket, because they have the reputation of always wearing jackets in the country of shirtsleeves).

1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xlvii. 275 The bunch of Anglo-Saxons and Yekkies that run Hadassah and your hospital, too, you call them real Israelis?

1982 M. Tax Rivington St. 84 There were the uptowners, the yekkes, rich fellows from Germany.

2010 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Books section) 24 Werner Loval is a self-confessed, stereotyped Yekke who likes order and who has put the larger part of his multifaceted life on file.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yekke
释义	Yekkeadj.n. Brit. /ˈjɛkə/, U.S. /ˈjɛkə/, /ˈjɛki/ Inflections: Plural yekkes, yekim Brit. /ˈjɛkɪm/, U.S. /ˈjɛkɪm/. Forms: 1900s– Yecke, 1900s– Yekke, 1900s– Yekkie (U.S.). Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Hebrew. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Yiddish. Etymons: Hebrew yeke; Yiddish yeke. Etymology: < either (i) modern Hebrew yeke or perhaps its etymon (ii) Yiddish yeke, further etymology uncertain and disputed.Further etymology. There are many suggestions for the etymology of the Yiddish word, most of them clearly folk-etymological. One suggestion derives it < German regional (Rhineland) Jeck , Jecke fool (also in extended self-deprecating use ‘human being’), regional variant of Geck (see geck n.¹). The widely circulated suggestion that it is < German Jacke coat, jacket (see jack n.¹), with reference to the shorter jackets worn by Jewish people of Western European, e.g. German, origin, whereas the coats worn by Eastern European Jews were typically longer, poses formal problems and is unconvincing (as likewise is the similar explanation offered in quot. 1950 at sense B.); similarly unconvincing is a derivation < a pet form of the male forename Jacob (see Jacob n.). Specific forms. The form Yekkie probably reflects an irregular spelling in English rather than any influence of -y suffix⁶. In plural form yekim after the modern Hebrew plural form. slang (often mildly depreciative). A. adj. Chiefly in Israeli Jewish usage: designating a Jewish person of German origin; of, relating to, or characteristic of Jewish people of German origin.Frequently with connotations of meticulousness, orderliness, punctuality, and obedience. ΚΠ 1949 National Jewish Post 29 July (Indiana ed.) On the way to Tel Aviv, a young yekke girl from Ginegar, one of those who had come from Germany. 1969 Israel Mag. 2 iv. 26/2 The professor, in his fastidious Yekke accent, countered: ‘And if I close the window, will it be warm outside?’ 1990 Jerusalem Rep. (Nexis) 15 Nov. 52 In his 1902 novel ‘Altneuland’.., Herzl's utopian vision of a Jewish commonwealth is a Vienna of the Levant, a yekke paradise where even the Arabs speak German. 2009 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 May (Features section) 20 Esthetics and order, politeness and cleanliness, were Yekke traits, not always copied by the rest of us. B. n. Chiefly in Israeli Jewish usage: a Jewish person of German origin.Frequently with connotations of meticulousness, orderliness, punctuality, and obedience. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area the Dispersion1382 Oriental Jew1659 diaspora1694 Polack1834 Ashkenazim1839 Hebraist1892 Litvak1892 Peruvian Jew1897 Tudesco1897 halutzim1921 Yemenite1926 Ostjuden1934 Sabra1945 Yekke1950 refusenik1973 1950 G. Mikes Milk & Honey 34 Another important group are the Germans, commonly called Yekke (from Jacke, i.e. jacket, because they have the reputation of always wearing jackets in the country of shirtsleeves). 1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xlvii. 275 The bunch of Anglo-Saxons and Yekkies that run Hadassah and your hospital, too, you call them real Israelis? 1982 M. Tax Rivington St. 84 There were the uptowners, the yekkes, rich fellows from Germany. 2010 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Books section) 24 Werner Loval is a self-confessed, stereotyped Yekke who likes order and who has put the larger part of his multifaceted life on file. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1949
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