Jewess

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English

A Jewess.

Etymology

From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise;[1] equivalent to Jew +‎ -ess.

Noun

Jewess (plural Jewesses)

  1. (dated or humorous) A female Jew.
    Hypernym: Jew
    Hyponym: giyoret
    • 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:
      And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
    • 1952, Ivanhoe:
      To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?
      To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.
      What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?
    • 2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:
      As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess.
    • 2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:
      You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “Jewess”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.