A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.
That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food.
The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed t...
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