Timeline for Is "jipped" a politically incorrect word?
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| Aug 28, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | user135722 | I am part Romani and the word offends me very much. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | Carl Younger | I added a comment to the question, so wont repeat it here, but jipped and jewwed have totally different meanings. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @tchrist well, it can indeed used as a euphemism for jewed in that if one is in the company of people who would object to anti-Semitic insults but who won't object to anti-Romani insults, then it would serve as a euphemism in that context. There is a set of (complicated, and mostly factually incorrect) set of associations between the Jewish and Romani people in some imaginations that can add to conflation between the two, as well. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 16:36 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I’ve met people who think that jipped was actually a euphemism for jewed, but that it got nipped (sorry:) after the Second World War to indicate the low-quality that “Made in Japan” once betokened. Folk etymology can be . . . well, creative may be too favorable a word. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 16:31 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |