judas

judas (plural judases)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“traitor”)
   • 2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192:

     There is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric.

2. Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“Judas-hole”)
   • 1913, Baroness Orczy, chapter 27, in The Laughing Cavalier:

     Soon he heard a soft grating behind the judas, and he felt—more than he saw—that a pair of eyes were peering at him from within.

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.da/ ~ /ʒy.dɑ/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: Judas, Juda

judas m (plural judas)

1. Judas (traitor)
2. spyhole, peephole, judas
   • 1882, Guy de Maupassant, La Peur:

     Au-dehors, la tempête acharnée battait la petite maison, et, par un étroit carreau, une sorte de judas placé près de la porte, je voyais soudain tout un fouillis d’arbres bousculés par le vent à la lueur de grands éclairs.

     Outside, the fierce storm was battering the little house, and, through a narrow window-pane, a sort of spyhole near the door, I suddenly saw a big tangle of trees knocked over by the wind, illuminated by great flashes of lightning.

• “judas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Judas.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -udɐs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -udɐʃ
• Hyphenation: ju‧das

judas m (invariable)

1. Judas (traitor)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:traidor

2. effigy of Judas that is burned during the Holy Saturday
3. (Brazil, colloquial) pauper

• “judas” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “judas”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “judas”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
• “judas”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “judas”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “judas”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “judas”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

From Judas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxudas/
• Rhymes: -udas
• Syllabification: ju‧das

judas m (plural judas)

1. traitor

• “judas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16