Jew vs Usurer - What's the difference?
jew | usurer |
An adherent of Judaism.
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)
A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
* 1936 , , Gone with the Wind , chapter XLIII
(rare) Specifically, a male usurer.
As a verb jew
is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.As a noun usurer is
a person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.jew
English
(Jew)Noun
(en noun)- I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
- 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, creationistCoordinate terms
*Synonyms
* Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)Hyponyms
*halakhistDerived terms
* Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jewusurer
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."