shonicker

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Etymology

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From Yiddish [Term?] (small trader).

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Noun

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shonicker (plural shonickers)

  1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur, dated) A Jew.
    • 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:
      “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 124:
      “You and I are expendable here, Charlie,” Humboldt said. “Why? I'll tell you. We're Jews, shonickers, kikes. Here in Princeton, we're no threat to Sewell.”
    • 1979, James Wreford Watson, quoting James T. Farrell, “The Jewish Scapegoat”, in Social geography of the United States, Longman, →ISBN, page 92:
      He'd cried out, in the last scrap, urging Benny to demolish a Jew, ‘Hit him, he's only a shonicker.’
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