Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a prostitute.

1887

W.E. Henley ‘Villon’s Good-Night’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 174: You judes that dobber for the stramm, / You ponces good at talking tall.

2. (US) a good-looking and thus as an insult, effeminate man.

1893

S. Crane Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (2001) 35: Git out an’ go ahn wid dat doe-faced jude of yours. Go teh hell wid him, damn yeh.

3. a woman.

1887		W.E. Henley ‘Culture in the Slums’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 178: Was it not prime – I leave you all to guess / How prime! to have a jude in love’s distress / Come spooning round.
1914		E. Dyson Spats’ Fact’ry (1922) 29: Our b’loved friend ’as his jude abroad lars’ night, sittin’ somewhere in the middle iv the park.

4. (Aus.) a man.

1914

Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Nov. 14/4: The blonde jude grappled wid Mick, ’n’ Mick hit him twixt soup ’n’ fish.