Etymology

shegetz

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Today it means: A gentile, a non-Jewish male. Full definition →

Yiddish שייגעץ ← Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromשֶׁקֶץ“abomination”
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromשייגעץ
  3. English todayshegetz

From Yiddish שייגעץ (sheygets), from Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.