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shik⋅sa

  [shik-suh]
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–noun Yiddish: Often Disparaging.
1. a girl or woman who is not Jewish.
2. a Jewish girl or woman whose attitudes and behavior are felt to resemble those of a gentile.
Also, shikse.
Compare shegetz.
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shik·sa also shik·se   (shĭk'sə)   
n.   Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for a non-Jewish girl or woman.

[Yiddish shikse, feminine of shegetz, shegetz; see shegetz.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

shiksa 
"gentile girl," in Jewish culture, 1892, from Yiddish shikse, from Heb. siqsa, from sheqes "a detested thing" + fem. suffix -a.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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