Yid
pronunciation
How to pronounce Yid in British English:
UK [jid]
How to pronounce Yid in American English:
US [jɪd]
Word Origin
- Yid (n.)
- generally derogatory term for a Jew, 1874 (Hotten, apparently originally British English), from Yiddish use, where it was complimentary (see Yiddish).
Example
- 1. You let this dirty yid defy me .
- 2. I 'm the biggest yid they 've ever seen .
- 3. A yid wouldn 't know , but the twelfth was judas !
- 4. Last month a group of boys was arrested for singing a football chant with the refrain " yid army " at their jewish teacher at chauncy school in hertfordshire .