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cohencidence

cohencidence noun: something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.

Noun

cohencidence (plural cohencidences)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, offensive, sarcastic, slang) Something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.
    • Surely this cannot be deemed a mere Cohencidence. There must be something scientific or theological about it that ought to be investigated.1939, American Hebrew (publisher), The American Hebrew, volume 146, number 4, page 4
    • 9. Is it mere coincidence (Cohencidence!!) that the first and third stanzas have 13 lines and stanza 2 has only 12??????1970, Everdale Place (publisher), This Magazine is About Schools, volume 4

Examples of cohencidence in a sentence

  • Incidentally, if there is a Swan in Ipswich as well, that's a hell of a cohencidence - I remember a very drunken discussion on the Swan in Needham, about that very same topic[1].1997 July 26, Void, “[I] puke, was FouR Horsemen variants”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
  • 1st Annual Meeting of Israelien Impersonators, held this inaugural year, amazing — O what a Cohencidence! such cohenesthesia!2010 May 11, Joshua Cohen, Witz (American Literature Series) (American Literature Series), Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 407:

Forms of cohencidence

pluralcohencidences

Origin of cohencidence

Blend of Cohen (common Jewish surname) + coincidence.

Words formed from cohencidence

Questions about cohencidence

What does cohencidence mean?
Cohencidence means something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.
How do you use cohencidence in a sentence?
Incidentally, if there is a Swan in Ipswich as well, that's a hell of a cohencidence - I remember a very drunken discussion on the Swan in Needham, about that very same topic[1].
What part of speech is cohencidence?
Cohencidence is a noun.
What is the plural of cohencidence?
The plural of cohencidence is cohencidences.

Words near cohencidence in the dictionary

  1. cohemolytic
  2. cohen
  3. Cohen syndrome
  4. Cohen-Macaulay
  5. Cohen-Sutherland algorithm
  6. cohencidence
  7. cohencidences
  8. cohencidental
  9. Cohenesque
  10. Cohenian
  11. Cohenist

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