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shonnicker

shonnicker 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 shonnicker

pluralshonnickers

Questions about shonnicker

What is shonnicker the alternative spelling of?
Shonnicker is the alternative spelling of shonicker.

Words near shonnicker in the dictionary

  1. Shonkoff
  2. shonks
  3. Shonkwiler
  4. Shonkwilers
  5. shonky
  6. shonnicker
  7. shonnickers
  8. Shons
  9. Shontell
  10. Shontells
  11. Shontz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shonnicker (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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