jew : Idioms & Phrases

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conservative jew

  • noun Jew who keeps some requirements of Mosaic law but adapts others to suit modern circumstances
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international islamic front for jihad against jews and crusaders

  • noun a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh
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jew bush

  • noun low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties
    redbird cactus; redbird flower; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; Jew bush; Jewbush.
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Jew's frankincense

  • gum styrax, or benzoin.
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jew's harp

  • noun a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity
    mouth bow; jew's harp.
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Jew's mallow

  • (Bot.), an annual herb (Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber.
  • a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria.
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Jew's pitch

  • asphaltum; bitumen.
  • bitumen.
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jew's-ear

  • noun widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
    Jew's-ear; ear fungus; Auricularia auricula.
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Jew's"-ear` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judæ, ∨ Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the human ear.
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jew's-ears

  • noun widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
    Jew's-ear; ear fungus; Auricularia auricula.
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jew's-harp

Jew's-harp` noun
Etymology
Jew + harp; or possibly a corrupt. of jaw's harp; cf. G. maultrommel, lit., mouthdrum.
Definitions
  1. An instrument of music, which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump.
  2. (Naut.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.
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jew's-stone

Jew's-stone`, Jew"stone` noun (Also<
  • Jew's-stone
  • Jewstone
)
Definitions
  1. (Paleon.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.
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jew-baiter

  • noun someone who hates and would persecute Jews
    anti-Semite.
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jew-bush

  • noun low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties
    redbird cactus; redbird flower; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; Jew bush; Jewbush.
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jews' harp

  • noun a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity
    mouth bow; jew's harp.
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non-jew

  • noun a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
    goy; gentile.
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orthodox jew

  • noun Jew who practices strict observance of Mosaic law
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reform jew

  • noun liberal Jew who tries to adapt all aspects of Judaism to modern circumstances
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sephardic jew

  • noun a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent
    Sephardi.
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The Wandering Jew

  • an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to the Savior during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.
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wandering jew

  • noun a legendary Jew condemned to roam the world for mocking Jesus at the Crucifixion
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