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单词 goyah
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goyahn.

Brit. /ˈɡɔɪə/, U.S. /ˈɡɔɪə/
Forms: 1800s– goya, 1800s– goyah, 1900s– goye, 1900s– goyeh.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish goyeh.
Etymology: < Yiddish goyeh, feminine form corresponding to goy goy n.
Often used pejoratively.
In Jewish usage: a non-Jewish woman, a female gentile. Cf. goy n.See also Shabbos goyah n.
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gentilea1382
goy1826
goyah1849
non-Jew1864
yok1921
1849 tr. in M. J. Raphall & C. N. Newdegate Jewish Dogmas 24 Rabbi Yachanan swore to a ‘goyah’ (non-Jewess) that he would not reveal the secret of a remedy for the tooth-ache.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. vi. 158 The Goyah, which is literally heathen female, did everything required on the Sabbath.
1920 L. Golding Forward from Babylon (1921) xv. 275 He might, God forbid, even marry a Gentile, a goyah!
2000 Evening Standard (Nexis) 26 July 35 Neurotic comedy has always been a peculiarly New York Jewish phenomenon, so it's little wonder that the style rang false when transplanted to a bunch of laid-back, almost comatose London goys and goyahs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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