Jewdar
English
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- (slang) The supposed ability of a person to detect or intuitively sense whether another person is Jewish.
- 2001, Ophira Edut, “Bubbe Got Back: Tales of a Jewess with Caboose”, in Danya Ruttenberg, editor, Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 30:
- And slap on a gag order if we dare say that these traits triggered our "Jewdar" (my Semitic equivalent of gaydar) and allowed us to identify someone as a fellow Jew.