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shikse ‎(plural shikses)

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 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.

From Yiddish שיקסע ‎(shikse).

shikse f ‎(plural shikses)