yid
- n (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
- Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews"), but he can also spit with rage ("a wop, a yid, a not-one-of-me face").
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News & Articles
- Premier League: Why Tottenham Must Stop "Yid" Chants
The re-emergence of the debate over Tottenham Hotspur supporters' use of the word "Yid" was not a surprise. It has popped up periodically over the last few years, a testament to the lack of a satisfactory resolution as to how the Jewish originating word can and cannot be used (if at all). It is a particularly complicated subject for a club that shares such historical links with the Jewish ...
Sept. 24, 2013 - Bleacher Report - Should 'Y' word be banned?
LONDON -- Sports fans who call themselves the "Yid Army" have been warned they face potential criminal prosecution amid a crackdown by soccer chiefs that has triggered debate in Britain about whether the so-called "Y" word is acceptable.
Sept. 23, 2013 - MSN - Should 'Y' word be banned? Debate splits UK
LONDON -- Sports fans who call themselves the "Yid Army" have been warned they face potential criminal prosecution amid a crackdown by soccer chiefs that has triggered debate in Britain about whether the so-called "Y" word is acceptable.
Sept. 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Quotes
- Rabbi Shmuel in Wall Street Journal
One of the rabbis, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, told the Jewish Star newspaper that he now had no problem with Mr. Schmeltzer: "As far as I know he is an ehrliche Yid [a truly devout Jew]." - Michael Chabon in guardian.co.uk
I have no misgivings,says Chabon. "In Yiddish, yid means Jew. So when you say the greeting 'Vos macht a yid?' it means 'How's it going?' When spoken between Jews 'yid' has intimacy - and that's why I used it. It demarcates the fact that...