goy
noun/ɡɔɪ/
Etymology 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.
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.1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
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Derogatory Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)
- Derived terms
- anti-goy, anti-goyish, antigoyism, goybait, goyball, goybeam, goybuck, goycattle, goyish, goyishkeit, goyishness, goymobile, goynip, goyslop, goysplain, goytard, groyper, shabbos goy
- Related terms
- goyishkeit, goyazite