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Origin: Yiddish
- All
- Textual Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
- English
- Ladino
- Arabic
- Other
Dictionary: Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
Use: Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
Region: Great Britain

Origin: Yiddish
- All
- Textual Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
- English
- Ladino
- Arabic
- Other
Dictionary: Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
Use: Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
Region: Great Britain

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yid

a Jewish person

A derogatory term used by non-Jews for a Jewish person (particularly so in Great Britain).

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