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Ikey vs Icey - What's the difference?

ikey | icey |

As adjectives the difference between ikey and icey

is that ikey is ‘Jewish’, seen in a derogatory sense; cunning, supercilious while icey is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a noun ikey

is a Jew.

ikey

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Jew.
  • *1906 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo,
  • *:Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can pick out the eye of the crow;

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, derogatory) ‘Jewish’, seen in a derogatory sense; cunning, supercilious.
  • *1913 ,
    • Clara had always been ‘ikey ’ – reserved and superior.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
    • What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland. He prolonged his pleased smile. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up in the northwest.

    See also

    *Ikey Mo

    icey

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (rare)
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