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shkotz

UK/ʃkɒts/US/ʃkɑts/

shkotz 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 shkotz

pluralshkotzim

Origin of shkotz

Back-formation from shkotzim.

Words that rhyme with shkotz

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about shkotz

What is shkotz the alternative form of?
Shkotz is the alternative form of shegetz.
How do you pronounce shkotz?
Shkotz is pronounced /ʃkɑts/ (US).

Words near shkotz in the dictionary

  1. Shklow
  2. Shkobba
  3. Shkodran
  4. Shkodrans
  5. Shkodër
  6. shkotz
  7. shkotzim
  8. shkoyach
  9. Shkupetar
  10. Shkupetars
  11. Shkypetar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shkotz (page history and authors); shegetz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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