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jew | fag |

As verbs the difference between jew and fag

is that jew is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud while fag is to leave.

jew

English

(Jew)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An adherent of Judaism.
    • I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
  • A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
  • * William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
    • Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
    warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
    as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
    do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

    Usage notes

    * The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.

    Hypernyms

    * religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationist

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)

    Hyponyms

    *halakhist

    Derived terms

    * Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (offensive) (jew)

    • fag

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
  • (UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
  • * 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon ,
    • He?d Phase Out Fag Industry
    Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.
  • * 2001 , (2001), 15,
    • All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their web fag ends into the fire.
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories , unnumbered page,
    • So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag'. Then after a while they were asking me. They?d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a '''fag'''?’ And then I got better and I?d finish the sheep and they?d say ‘Christ, I haven?t finished me bloody ' fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’
  • (UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1788 , editor=William Perry , title=The Royal standard English dictionary? citation , passage=Fag , s. the worst part or end of anything.}}
    Synonyms
    * (cigarette) ciggy (Australia), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily rag

    Etymology 2

    Probably alteration of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
  • * 1818 , '', 1992, ''Complete Works of Jane Austen , unnumbered page,
    • We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag —I come back tired to death.
  • (British, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
  • * 1791 , Simon Sapling (pseudonym), Richard Cumberland, The Observer: A Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays , Volume 4, page 67,
    • I had the character at ?chool of being the very be?t fag that ever came into it.

    Verb

  • (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
  • (colloquial) To droop; to tire.
  • * G. Mackenzie, Lives'', quoted in 1829 , "Fag", entry in ''The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary , Volume 9, page 12,
    • Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag , and then brought him to the ground.
  • (British, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.

    • Etymology 3

    From (faggot).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual person.
  • * 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators ( Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
    • Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1926 , author=American Neurological Association , coauthors=New York Neurological Association et al , journal=Journal of nervous and mental disease , volume=94 , page=467 citation , passage=In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag ," " fruit," etc.). ... }}
  • * 2006 , Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos
    • A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Paul Ryan Brewer , title=Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights , page=60 citation , isbn=0742562115, 9780742562110 , passage=... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag " in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.}}
  • # (colloquial, disparaging) In particular, a conspicuously non-straight-acting homosexual male.
  • (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
    • Why did you do that, you fag ?
    Usage notes
    In North America, fag is often considered highly offensive, although some gay people have tried to reclaim it. (Compare faggot.) The humorousness of derived terms fag hag'' and ''fag stag is sometimes considered to lessen their offensiveness.
    Derived terms
    * fag hag * fag stag
    Synonyms
    * (male homosexual) faggot, fairy, homo, queer * (male homosexual friend) bro, pal * (annoying person) ass, asshole, dick, jerk, prick, putz, schmuck * (conspicuous homosexual) ** (effeminate or prissy) flamer, queen