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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:01 PM
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7. It's a Jewish Character in "Merchant of Venice"
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 02:04 PM by YOY
Not a very nice Jewish character...a money shark. Shylock has become sort of a secondary word for loan shark. Again, one need not be Jewish to be a "shylock"...but the word "shylock" definitely does have somewhat antisemitic origins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock

Both the "pound of flesh" and "Hath a Jew not eyes..." lines are attributed to Shylock.
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