ikeyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌɪki/

名詞

ikey (複数形 ikeys)

1. (slang, derogatory) A Jew.
   • 1906, Banjo Paterson, Wisdom of Hafiz

     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;

   • 1931, Dorothy L Sayers, The Five Red Herrings, chapter 29.

     I meant to start from Barrhill, but I missed the train, and then I hung on to old Ikey-Mo, which made my alibi much better,

形容詞

ikey (comparative more ikey, superlative most ikey)

1. (slang, derogatory) Having negative traits stereotypically associated with Jews; cunning, supercilious.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     Clara had always been ‘ikey’ – reserved and superior.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     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.

参考

• Ikey Mo