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cohencidence en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Cohen (common Jewish surname) + coincidence.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, offensive, sarcastic, slang) Something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.
   • 1st Annual Meeting of Israelien Impersonators, held this inaugural year, amazing — O what a Cohencidence! such cohenesthesia! 2010 May 11, Joshua Cohen, Witz (American Literature Series) (American Literature Series), Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 407:
   • • Soros owns company where Coronavirus broke out. • Israel-linked Dr. Charles *Lieber* arrested for receiving payment and smuggling biomaterials to Wuhan University. • Israel was “already working on a vaccine” • That's some MIGHTY BIG COHENCIDENCES. 2022 June 2, Steven Katz, The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism (Cambridge Companions to Religion), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
   • Incidentally, if there is a Swan in Ipswich as well, that's a hell of a cohencidence - I remember a very drunken discussion on the Swan in Needham, about that very same topic[1]. IIRC, we eventually decided that there must be some sort of "diced carrot appendix" in the human body, that simply stores all the diced carrot ever eaten by a person, then returns it when needed[2]. 1997 July 26, Void, “[I] puke, was FouR Horsemen variants”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
   • 9. Is it mere coincidence (Cohencidence!!) that the first and third stanzas have 13 lines and stanza 2 has only 12?????? 1970, Everdale Place (publisher), This Magazine is About Schools, volume 4:
   • Surely this cannot be deemed a mere Cohen'''cidence. There must be something scientific or theological about it that ought to be investigated. 1939, American Hebrew (publisher), The American Hebrew, volume 146, number 4, page 4:
   • What a Cohencidence! My newest book was published quite recently, too. There is one minor difference though. In my case, I bought it, not wrote it. 2003 October 10, Capa0848, “Where Nobody Knows You're a Music Thief”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet):
   • Interestingly, the “Holocaust gassing hysteria” didn’t begin until 1967, about the same time that the Jews attacked their Arab neighbors and stole their land — that must be just a big Cohencidence! You’d think that the Holocaust gassing hysteria would have begun in 1945 or 1946! 2019 March 9, rebcar...@gmail.com, “More Holohoaxing”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

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