shegetz
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Etymology[edit]
From Yiddish שייגעץ (sheygets), from Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination”).
Noun[edit]
shegetz (plural shkotzim or shegetzes)
- (sometimes derogatory) A gentile, a non-Jewish male.
- 1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life”, in Portnoy’s Complaint[1], New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 216:
- And where is she now, that find! Hello, Pumpkin! Making some lucky shaygets a wonderful wife out there in middle America?
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non-Jewish male