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Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German ), mostly in North American Jewish culture .
This is a list of common nouns, used in the English language, whose etymology goes back to the name of some, often historical or archaic, ethnic or religious group, but whose current meaning has lost that connotation and does not imply any actual ethnicity or religion. Several of these terms are derogatory or insulting.
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Category: Given names by culture. 27 languages. ... English given names (4 C, 163 P) Estonian given names (2 C) Ethiopian given names (54 P) F. Faroese given names (2 C)
Perhaps the most prominent example of this came when the name Shirley skyrocketed from being the name of 14,320 newborn girls in 1933 to more than 42,000 in 1935.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Getty Images(3) While River may seem like an unusual baby name, it’s become quite popular in Hollywood. When Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara welcomed their first child in September 2020, the ...
cattalo, from cattle and buffalo [2]; donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below; llamanaco, from llama and guanaco [3]; wholphin, from whale and dolphin [2]