Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A non-Jewish girl or woman.
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- noun Judaism, pejorative, derogatory non-Jewish
girl . - noun
maiden
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- noun a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Few Jews would use the word shiksa in the same way today.
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I won't argue with your message as I love your writing but I will argue with the use of the word shiksa to mean non-Jewish woman.
unknown title 2009
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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 2009
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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.
A Hanukkah (Chanukah?) 2010 wish from your goy best friend Alexandra Petri 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And has anyone meet a person who admits to being offended and hurt by being called a shiksa?
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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.
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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…. 2005
tankhughes commented on the word shiksa
Different from the fragrant powder chiksa
November 28, 2022