shiksa
See also: शिक्षा
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse), which is partly derived from the Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination, impure, object of loathing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɪksə/
Noun
shiksa (plural shiksas)
- (Judaism, often derogatory) A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young.
- 1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8:
- A Shickse, that wasn't bad enough? What's worse, you ask? A black man? Well this daughter of mine had to find herself a black woman in order to spite me. That I should never rest easy in my grave.
- (derogatory) a sexually promiscuous gentile woman.
Related terms
Translations
non-Jewish girl
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃiɡsa/ [ˈʃiɣ̞.sa]
- Rhymes: -iɡsa
- Syllabification: shik‧sa
Noun
shiksa f (plural shiksas)
- alternative form of shikse