Associations to the word «Shylock»
Wiktionary
SHYLOCK, noun. (US) A loan shark; a usurer.
SHYLOCK, noun. (offensive) (ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.
SHYLOCK, verb. (intransitive) (US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.
SHYLOCK, proper noun. A fictional character who was a moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
Dictionary definition
SHYLOCK, noun. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
SHYLOCK, noun. A merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare.
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.