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SHEGETZ

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offensive term for non-Jewish young man

Example:

why does she like all those shkotzim?

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shegetz" is a kind of...):

gentile; goy; non-Jew (a Christian as contrasted with a Jew)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

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