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Jewess (plural Jewesses)

1. (dated or humorous) A female Jew. [14th c.]

   Hypernym: Jew

   Hyponym: giyoret

   • 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:

     And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.

   • 1952, Ivanhoe:

     To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?
     To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.
     What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?

   • 2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:

     As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess.

   • 2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:

     You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.

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• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Israelite
• Yiddish

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