Jew |joō|
noun
a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
PHRASES
jew someone down offensive bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French juiu, via Latin from Greek Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Hebrew yĕhū d I, from yĕhū d āh ‘Judah’ (see Judah ).