Definitions

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  • noun A female Gentile.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women

Etymologies

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From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse). Perhaps from German schicken ("to send").

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Examples

  • “Absolutely—let's show this shikse what real New York deli food is like!”

    With Ann Coulter on the Jewish Conversion Tour Con Chapman 2012

  • She's been on several times...probably because she's the only religious shikse Paikin knows.

    It’s not me, it’s you. LuLu 2009

  • Why does that awful, bony-arsed shikse only want Jewish photoshoppers?

    But let's bomb them, just to be on the safe side. CC 2008

  • Years ago, I remember having genetic tests for heart problems with the rest of my family and coming up as the snail-level cholesterol shikse that I am -- whereas everyone else had mad cholesterol and all of the traits they were looking for that ran as heart issues in the family.

    Front Page Babay 2008

  • Years ago, I remember having genetic tests for heart problems with the rest of my family and coming up as the snail-level cholesterol shikse that I am -- whereas everyone else had mad cholesterol and all of the traits they were looking for that ran as heart issues in the family.

    Front Page Babay 2008

  • Uh…interesting sentiments from a bitter shikse in The Daily Northwestern.

    Stress of being a ‘goylfriend’ tough to bear | Jewschool 2004

  • … So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • And I do know what a shikse is or I wouldn't have said it.

    Latest Articles Commentary 2010

  • The story of a shikse (a word I'd never heard and thus had no idea was derogatory) from a small New England town, taken in, hoodwinked, and swindled blind by such skillful means as she never dreamt existed.

    HUMORLESSBITCH 2009

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