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goy

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɡɔɪ/

Definition of goy

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (offensive, sometimes)A non-Jew, a gentile.
    “I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.”
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noun

  1. (offensive, sometimes)A non-Jew, a gentile.
    “I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.”
  2. (derogatory)Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)
  3. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of goy.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi)bor. Yiddish גוי (goy)bor. English goy Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”). The term goy does not technically…

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Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi)bor. Yiddish גוי (goy)bor. English goy Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”). The term goy does not technically refer to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a goy. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.

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