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单词 wandering Jew
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Jew /joo/

noun
  1. A member of a Semitic people practising a monotheistic religion
  2. An Israelite
  3. A usurer, miser, someone who drives a hard bargain (offensive)
adjective (derogatory or offensive)

Jewish

transitive verb and intransitive verb (old; offensive; also without cap)

To haggle (with) or get the better of in a bargain

ORIGIN: OFr Jueu, from L Jūdaeus, from Gr Ioudaios, from Heb Yehūdāh Judah

Jewˈess noun (offensive when used by non-Jews)

A Jewish woman

Jewˈish adjective

  1. Of the Jews or their religion
  2. Extortionate, money-grubbing (offensive)

Jewˈishly adverb

Jewˈishness noun

Jewˈry noun

  1. The Jewish world, community or religion
  2. Judaea (archaic)
  3. A district inhabited by Jews (historical).

Jewˈ-baiting noun

The persecuting of Jews

jewˈfish noun

A name for several very large American and Australian fishes

Jew'sˈ-ear noun

An ear-like fungus (genus Auricularia) parasitic on elder and other trees

Jew's eye noun

Something of very high value (Shakespeare ‘worth a Jewe's eye’; from the practice of torturing Jews for money)

Jew's-frankˈincense noun

Benzoin

Jew's-harpˈ or Jews'-harpˈ or Jew's-trumpˈ or Jews'-trumpˈ noun

(also without cap) a small lyre-shaped instrument played against the teeth by plucking a metal tongue with the finger

Jews' houses or leavings plural noun

In Cornwall, remains of prehistoric miners' dwellings, mine refuse, and tin furnaces

Jew's mallow noun

  1. A yellow-flowered plant, Kerria japonica (family Rosaceae)
  2. (Jews' mallow) jute, Corchorus olitorius

Jew's-myrˈtle noun

Butcher's broom

Jew'sˈ-pitch noun

Asphalt

Jew'sˈ-stone noun

A large fossil sea-urchin spine

Jews' thorn noun

Christ's thorn

wandering Jew see under wander

wander /wonˈdər/

intransitive verb
  1. To ramble or move with no definite object, or with no fixed course, or by a roundabout way (lit and figurative)
  2. To go astray, deviate from the right path or course, the subject of discussion, the object of attention, etc
  3. To lose one's way (informal)
  4. To be incoherent in talk, disordered in mind, or delirious
transitive verb
  1. To traverse
  2. To lead astray, or to bewilder (informal)
noun

A ramble, stroll

ORIGIN: OE wandrian; cf Ger wandern; related to wend, and to wind2

wanˈdered adjective

  1. Astray
  2. Incoherent
  3. Bewildered

wanˈderer noun

  1. A person or animal that wanders, esp habitually or from inclination
  2. (with cap) a Covenanter who left his or her home to follow a dispossessed minister (historical)

wanˈdering adjective and noun

wanˈderingly adverb

wandering albatross noun

A large albatross, Diomedea exulans

Wandering Jew noun

A legendary Jew in the folklore esp of NW Europe who cannot die but must wander until the end of the world or until Christ's second coming, as a punishment for taunting Christ on the way to the Crucifixion, his name occurring variously as Cartaphilus, Ahasuerus, Buttadeus, etc

wandering Jew noun

Any of several trailing or creeping plants, esp a species of Tradescantia (T. fluminensis) with variegated leaves

wandering nerve noun

The vagus, the tenth cranial nerve

wandering sailor noun

A popular trailing house plant, Tradescantia blossfeldiana, with leaves that are maroon on the underside

wander plug noun

An electrical plug on a flexible wire capable of being inserted in any appropriate socket

wander year noun

A year spent in travel to complete training or broaden experience before settling down to a trade or profession

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