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jewie

jewie noun: a fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.

jewie: a fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway
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Noun (1)

jewie (plural jewies)

  1. (Australia) A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.
    Synonyms:
    butterfish, jew, jewfish, kabeljou, mulloway, Madagascar meagre

Noun (2) capitalized: Jewie

Jewie (plural Jewies)

  1. (diminutive, rare, perhaps derogatory) Diminutive of Jew.
    • So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time all the time I'm told those Jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't...1918, James Joyce, Ulysses

Synonyms of jewie

Forms of jewie

pluraljewies
pluralJewies

Origin of jewie

From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.

Questions about jewie

What does jewie mean?
Jewie means a fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.
What part of speech is jewie?
Jewie is a noun.
What is the plural of jewie?
The plural of jewie is jewies.

Words near jewie in the dictionary

  1. Jewgle
  2. Jewhatred
  3. Jewhood
  4. Jewhurst
  5. Jewhursts
  6. jewie
  7. jewies
  8. Jewification
  9. Jewifications
  10. Jewified
  11. Jewifies

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