jew

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dʒuː/

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• Homophones: Jew, dew
• Rhymes: -uː

Transferred use of Jew.

• Jew

jew (third-person singular simple present jews, present participle jewing, simple past and past participle jewed)

1. (offensive) To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.

• jew down

jew (plural jews)

1. (Australia) The jewfish. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:

     The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

jew

1. Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
2. Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

• jwé

From Arabic أَوْ‎ (ʾaw).

• IPA^(key): /jɛw/

jew

1. or
   • "Joe Mizzi ma jeskludix li tinbena l-infrastruttura għall-'monorail' jew ferrovija", in iNew Malta, 20 November 2015.

     Il-Ministru għat-Trasport u l-Infrastruttura Joe Mizzi ma eskludiex il-possibiltà li f'Malta tinbena l-infrastruttura għall-monorail jew ferrovija.

     Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Joe Mizzi didn't rule out the possibility that monorail or railway infrastructure be built in Malta.

2. else