Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shonicker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shon-ick-er
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Jew.

American usage; Dated; Offensive

Example Sentences

"“Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers."
"“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.”"
"He'd cried out, in the last scrap, urging Benny to demolish a Jew, ‘Hit him, he's only a shonicker.’"

Etymology

From Yiddish [Term?] (“small trader”).

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Usage

American usage
Dated
Offensive

Inflected Forms

shonickers (plural) shoniker (alternative) shonikker (alternative) shonnicker (alternative) shonniker (alternative) schonocker (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

shonk

Questions

What does shonicker mean?: A Jew.
Where does shonicker come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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