yiddo

Example Sentences

• "Dave, ’e’s a nutter in school. ’E used to go to exams, get a big quiet hall, real quiet like with a right strict teacher there in the exam room and ’e used to see all the yiddos there doing their exam and Dave is trying to copy off ’em and then the teacher’d say “I have got to be back at school now, I’m leaving Mr Arman or something here for twenty minutes” and an Indian teacher would come in […]"
• "And down at Tottenham Hotspur - where the fans were once largely of Jewish origin and the thickheads have labelled Spurs as the “yiddos” - the term has been accepted by football fans who are appearing on the terraces with all the NF [National Front] and swastika drag plus the Jewish skullcap (to keep it on they have to tape it to their shaven skulls) and chant away: “We are the yiddos”."
• "A group of young Jewish kids are being harangued by a group of young men. They yell: ‘Yiddo, yiddo, yiddo!’ at the kids."
• "Many people claim that “yiddo” is just a lighthearted nickname, happily used by Spurs fans and nothing to do with actual Jews (which is certainly the defence made for stewards’ failure to do anything about these cries, when they will eject users of other racist language), but that doesn’t explain why rival fans also chant: “Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz” and make hissing noises to represent gas ovens – nor why “Yiddo” gets shouted at the Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun, who’s never played for Tottenham in his life. God, football’s awful."