Shiksa (Noun)
Meaning
A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Usages
Examples
- His friends joked that his girlfriend was a shiksa, not knowing the painful connotations the term carried for some people.
- Her rabbi strongly discouraged her from dating the shiksa, claiming she was bad news.
- My aunt said the neighbor's wife was a beautiful shiksa, not intending the disrespect she'd learned was often inherent in the term.
- Their tradition made him uneasy about bringing his shiksa girlfriend to Passover seder, and ultimately decided not to do it.
- By his Orthodox grandmother's lights, my Catholic wife made her the embodiment of the alluring and wicked shiksa from stereotypes of Eastern European Yiddish culture.