Jewie
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway. Australia
- 2 Diminutive of Jew. diminutive, form-of, rare
"So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time all the time I'm told those Jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on."
Example
More examples"So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time all the time I'm told those Jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on."
Etymology
From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.
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