shikse

English

Alternative forms

• schicksa
• shiksa
• shikseh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʃɪksə/

Noun

shikse (plural shikses)

1. A female Gentile.
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoys Complaint:

     My father…and a shikse? Can’t be. Was beyond his ken. My own father – fucked shikses? I’ll admit under duress that he fucked my mother…but shikses? I can no more imagine him knocking over a gas station.

   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 26:

     So that's your task when your mother releases you into the world: to warm back into life the chilly universe of shiksehs.

Translations

a female gentile

• French: shiksa (fr) f, shikse (fr) f

• German: Schickse (de) f; also: Schicks (de) f, Schicksel (de) n/f, Schicksl (de) n/f

Anagrams

• sheiks