Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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M. Wex Born to Kvetch 158: Bupkes means ‘nothing,’ all right, but it’s a rather specific kind of nothing, as different from gornisht, the dictionary Yiddish for ‘nothing, as ‘nothing’ itself is from sweet fuck-all. The basic meaning of bupkes, which is spelled and pronounced bobkes [...] is dung, specifically the dung of sheep or goats.at bupkes, n.
M. Wex Born to Kvetch 68: Sheygets and shikse were meant as barriers, fences between Jewish youth and the easy sexuality of ‘the heathen who do not know God’ [...] Sheygets has lost most of its sexual charge [...] and tends to call forth an image of testosterone-fueled loutishness.at shaygets, n.
M. Wex Born to Kvetch 71: Calling [...] an attractive man a sheygets is not much different from calling a fat person Tiny.at shaygets, n.
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