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shoniker

shoniker is the alternative spelling of shonicker.

Meaning of shonicker

Noun

shonicker (plural shonickers)

  1. (US, dated, ethnic, offensive, slur) A Jew.
    • “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156

Forms of shoniker

pluralshonikers

Questions about shoniker

What is shoniker the alternative spelling of?
Shoniker is the alternative spelling of shonicker.

Words near shoniker in the dictionary

  1. Shongum
  2. Shoni
  3. shonichi
  4. shonicker
  5. shonickers
  6. shoniker
  7. shonikers
  8. shonikker
  9. shonikkers
  10. Shoniqua
  11. shonk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoniker (page history and authors); shonicker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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