shiksa
/ˈʃɪksə
/noun often derogatory
(Used especially by Jews) a gentile girl or woman: he’s got a big blonde on his arm - a shiksa no less [as modifier]: your sister has a classic shiksa face...
- Incidentally, what is it about people who go on about being ‘shiksas’ and ‘goys’?
- She even converted to Judaism, calling herself ‘the Jewish shiksa.’
- It's not every day that you say yourself: ‘I can't believe she's not a shiksa.’
Origin
Late 19th century: from Yiddish shikse, from Hebrew šiqṣāh (from šeqeṣ 'detested thing' + the feminine suffix -āh).
- have been there before
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with