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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin