Herb vs Heeb - What's the difference?
herb | heeb |
Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food.
Plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
(slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
(botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
(obsolete) Grass; herbage.
* Milton
(slang, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Jew.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 49:
As nouns the difference between herb and heeb
is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while heeb is a Jew.As a proper noun Herb
is a diminutive=Herbert given name.herb
English
(wikipedia herb)Noun
(en noun)- flocks grazing the tender herb
Synonyms
* (marijuana) grass, weedHyponyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* ----heeb
English
Alternative forms
* hebe * Hebe * HeebNoun
(en noun)- Most of the famous and up-and-coming performers of the day [...] were heebs , and the boys had the feeling that we should all stick together and not knock the big names of "our" race.