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goi [goi] EXAMPLES| noun, plural goy·im, gois. goy. Liberaldictionary.com
goy or goi [goi] noun, 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. Origin of goy 1835–45; Yiddish Hebrew goi nation, non-Jew, Jew ignorant of the Jewish religionRelated formsgoy·ish, adjectiveUsage note Use of this term usually implies a contempt for non-Jews as being different from or even inferior to Jews: Only a goy would use such faulty logic. goy is rarely used in a neutral, descriptive way as a synonym for gentile , though that is its meaning in Yiddish and Hebrew. In another usually disparaging usage, goy is applied to a Jew who is not observant. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for goyim Contemporary Examples of goyim
His approval rating among Jews, steady in the low 60s, is about 15 percent higher than it is with the goyim.
Obama’s Silent Jewish Majority
Eric Alterman
August 22, 2010
Historical Examples of goyim
“It would make us undistinguishable from the goyim,” answered Bensef.
Milton Goldsmith
Besides, these Goyim were trying to undermine the True Religion.
Albert Edwards
The Goyim refuse us equal rights because they know we’re their superiors.
Israel Zangwill
The laws of the goyim against the children of Israel must be abolished.
Herman Bernstein
I suppose that he dropped the synagogue and Yom kippur, and became a Reformirter, and his children in due time Goyim.
Charles Godfrey Leland
British Dictionary definitions for goyim goy noun plural goyim (ˈɡɔɪɪm) or goys a Jewish word for a gentile Derived Formsgoyish, adjectiveWord Origin for goy from Yiddish, from Hebrew goi people Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for goyim
plural of goy (q.v.).
goy n.
“gentile, non-Jew” (plural goyim), 1835, from Hebrew goy “people, nation;” in Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew, also “gentile.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
