shikker

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shikker

(ˈʃɪkə)
n
another name for shicker
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There is even a folk song including the words "Oy oy oy, shikker iz a goy, shikker iz trinken miz er, vayl er iz a goy." (2) (A drunkard is a gentile.
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He did not call any of them a chazzer, chutzpenik, draikop, ganef, k'vatsh, nudnik, ongeblozzener, oysvurf, potzevateh, pustunpasnik, schmendrick, shikker, shlub, shmegegi, shmok, shnook, traifnyak, trombenik, yold, yukel, zhlob or zhulik (terms of endearment he apparently reserved for melt), and indeed Yale expressed the greatest respect and affection for those who engaged him in these rhetorical rhubarbs.
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"The traditional belief that 'shikker iz a goy,'" he writes, has led rabbis and community officials to perceive AA meetings as appropriate for churches but not for synagogues or other Jewish facilities.
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