Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A non-Jewish boy or young man.
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- noun offensive A
gentile , a non-Jewishmale .
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- noun an offensive term for non-Jewish young man
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Yiddish sheygets, from Hebrew šeqeṣ, blemish; see šqṣ in Semitic roots.]
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From Yiddish שייגעץ (sheygets)
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‘Sheqetz’ or ‘shegetz’ is a Hebrew-based synonym for goy (www. thefreedictionary.com/goy), which is why phil may not understand it.
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Sheqetz and shegetz (shaygetz is a better transliteration) are two different words in two different languages meaning two different things.
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The Megiddo Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, published in Israel, correctly defines shegetz as follows: ‘unclean animal; loathsome creature, abomination colloquial - pronounced shaygets wretch, unruly youngster; Gentile youngster’.
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