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Shiksa

//ˈʃɪksə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young. Judaism, derogatory, often

    "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."

  2. 2
    a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women wordnet
  3. 3
    A sexually promiscuous gentile woman. derogatory

Etymology

From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse), which is partly derived from the Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination, impure, object of loathing”).

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