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goy

/goi/US // gɔɪ //UK // (ɡɔɪ) //

戈伊

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural goy·im [goi-im], /ˈgɔɪ ɪm/, goys.Usually Disparaging.

    • : a term used by a Jew to refer to someone who is not Jewish.
    • : a term used by an observant Jew to refer to a Jew who is not religious or is ignorant of Judaism.

Examples

  • You put the id back in Yid, Portnoy instructed, and you come to understand the “oy” in goy.

  • The narrator calls two of the men "Bill the Goy" and "Clyde the Schlub."

  • In the eyes of the Goy he's something peculiar, something disgraceful!

  • Pooty soon Bill said to hisself, 'Goy-blamed ef I don't think he's friz to death, or else he'd say somethin'!'

  • Truly the wise man's proverb is just: "Sedaukauh teromain goy, veh-ka-sade le-u-meem khahmaut."

  • For what is absolutely necessary they employ an occasional servant, who is known as the "Shobbos Goy."

  • Two in particular, Agasaki and Goy, are thus described by Kmpfer.

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