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sheygets

sheygets 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

Forms of sheygets

pluralsheygetses

Questions about sheygets

What is sheygets the alternative form of?
Sheygets is the alternative form of shegetz.

Words near sheygets in the dictionary

  1. shews forth
  2. shewstone
  3. shewstones
  4. shewy
  5. Sheyenne
  6. sheygets
  7. sheygetses
  8. sheyikh
  9. sheyikhs
  10. sheykh
  11. sheykhs

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