Definitions
Etymologies
- From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse), which is partly derived from the Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (shékets, "abomination, impure, object of loathing"). (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish shikse, feminine of shegetz, shegetz; see shegetz. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Few Jews would use the word shiksa in the same way today.”
“So I couldn’t really care all that much that Raj lost his Batang Fighting Kite to Howard’s libido — so much for Howard’s budding relationship with that mother-suffering shiksa from the last episode, by the way.”
'Big Bang Theory': Sheldon and Leonard talk football, fly kites | EW.com
“I was once described as a shiksa, which I thought was something you were discouraged from having if you were Jewish because of its origins and the fact that it was usually served on a stick.”
The Washington Post: A Hanukkah (Chanukah?) 2010 wish from your goy best friend
“The Yiddish word goy is loaded with negative associations, and the word shiksa, which everyone still uses, comes from Hebrew for “blemish,” according to Leo Rosten.”
“And has anyone meet a person who admits to being offended and hurt by being called a shiksa?”
“The Yiddish word goy is loaded with negative associations, and the word shiksa, which everyone still uses, comes from Hebrew for "blemish," according to Leo Rosten.”
“I, being not Jewish, could be called a shiksa, though it wouldn’t be very nice to do so.”
Tigers & Strawberries » I Bet You Didn’t Know That Shiksas Had Balls….
“Barbara Ginsberg of Olathe, Kan., said she and her husband use "shiksa" so much she's come to think of it as a "term of endearment" and "funny.”
“This time, "shiksa" hurt her feelings, because it underscored that "my son had been treated differently because of me," Scotti said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shiksa’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Yiddish
tsuris, verklempt, haimish, bupkis, naches, nudnik, nebbish, bubbe meise, knish, shiksa
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speaking in tongues
schadenfreude, naïve, gnosis, sangfroid, capisce, flagrante delicto, lux, veritas, gravitas, coquette, panache, nom de plume and 73 more...
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ursamajor's Words
defenestrate, infovore, voracious, liminal, malediction, fallacy, supercalifragilis..., neologism, wordanista, truthiness, shiksa
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the feminine mystique
I love being a woman.
pink-collar, vagina dentata, écriture féminine, primigravida, cunt, yoni, lingam, fangast, chattel, moppet, lolita, philogynist and 52 more...
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Name-Calling Humans
Terms of human exceptionalism, exclusivity, and 'types of'.
cablinasian, goyim, shiksa, gweilo, gaijin, banana, nigger, abc, fob, twinkie, oreo, ching chong and 48 more...
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Yiddishisms
kvech, putz, oy, oy vey, shlemiel, shlemazel, mazel, yuntif, kepple, fleegul, pupik, shlep and 31 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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Sluts, Bitches, and Goddesses
Words for women.
floozie, whore, cunt, tart, trull, ianfu, demimondaine, demimonde, ball-buster, ball-breaker, bar girl, b-girl and 84 more...
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Yiddish
chutzpah, kvetch, mensch, nosh, oy vey, putz, schmuck, shiksa, tchotchke, schlep, shtik, gornisht and 6 more...
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Schmuck
schmuck, nebbish, schlemiel, schmo, klutz, schnook, kvetch, meshuggener, noodge, nudnik, pisher, putz and 5 more...
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yiddish
oy vey, schmuck, putz, meshuganah, kvetch, chutzpah, shiksa, mensch, shvitz
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