shikse

English

Noun

shikse (plural shikses)

1. Alternative form of shiksa
   • 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, published 2007, page 26:

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

Anagrams

• kishes, sheiks

Spanish

Alternative forms

• shiksa

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שיקסע (shikse).

Noun

shikse f (plural shikses)

1. shiksa (non-Jewish woman)