Crossword clues for shiksa
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gentile girl," in Jewish culture, dismissive or disparaging, 1892, from Yiddish shikse, from Hebrew siqsa, from sheqes "a detested thing" + fem. suffix -a.
Wiktionary
n. (context Judaism derogatory English) A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young.
WordNet
n. a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women [syn: shikse]
Wikipedia
Shiksa ( Yiddish: shikse) is an often disparaging term of Yiddish origin that has moved into English usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish culture, as a term for a non-Jewish woman or girl.
Usage examples of "shiksa".
Their bald shiksa granddaughter turning tricks and getting a business degree -- it will be all my fault.
This stranger wasn't Ivan's fiancée, Ruth was—and Ruth would make sure that Ivan had very little time to lounge around home with this shiksa princess.
Smetski had ever looked at me the way she's looking at this shiksa, I would never have had a moment's worry.
Reason for leaving: Replaced by shiksa," she knew it wasn't going to happen.
Let Ivan eat that while Katerina was in the house on some made-up little errand and see whether he wanted to be married to the shiksa after that.
The Jews were out, too: instead of Mimi, the new show would have a voluptuous shiksa doll.