frogprince, I am going to have go drag out my granddad's late 1800s four volume dictionary to look those up, now!

I grew up hearing a lot of those, too, including to "jew" someone down and also to be "gypped" out of something. My mom and dad lived long enough to learn about the offensiveness and not use them, though I think dad still did when he was in his wife's company. I'll never forget her saying to me one time when they first were together, I was about 23, three kids, and had braided my hair the night before so it would be wavy the next day when I took the braids out. That bitch actually said she didn't understand why anyone would want their hair to look like a "niggers." I left immediately and didn't speak to her or my dad for several years after that.