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shaygetz

shaygetz is the alternative form of shegetz.

Meaning of shegetz

Noun

shegetz (plural shkotzim or shegetzes)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) A gentile, a non-Jewish male.
    • And where is she now, that find! Hello, Pumpkin! Making some lucky shaygets a wonderful wife out there in middle America?1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 216

Questions about shaygetz

What is shaygetz the alternative form of?
Shaygetz is the alternative form of shegetz.

Words near shaygetz in the dictionary

  1. shayatin
  2. Shaydon
  3. Shaye
  4. shaygets
  5. shaygetses
  6. shaygetz
  7. shaykh
  8. shaykh al-Islam
  9. shaykh ul-Islam
  10. shaykhdom
  11. shaykhdoms

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