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Jewish

[joo-ish]

Jew·ish

[joo-ish]
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Jews or Judaism: Jewish customs.
2.
Informal. Yiddish.
noun
3.
Informal. Yiddish.

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Jewish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1540–50; Jew + -ish1; compare Old English iudēisc < Late Latin iudē(us) Jew + Old English -isc -ish1

Jew·ish·ly, adverb
an·ti-Jew·ish, adjective
half-Jew·ish, adjective
non-Jew·ish, adjective
pre-Jew·ish, adjective
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pro-Jew·ish, adjective
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Jewish (ˈdʒuːɪʃ)
 
adj
1.  of, relating to, or characteristic of Jews
 
n
2.  a less common word for Yiddish
 
'Jewishly
 
adv
 
'Jewishness
 
n

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