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单词 shabbos goy
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Shabbos goyn.

Brit. /ˈʃabəs ɡɔɪ/, /ˌʃabəs ˈɡɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈʃɑbəs ˌɡɔɪ/, /ˌʃɑbəs ˈɡɔɪ/
Forms: 1900s– Shabbas goy, 1900s– Shabbes goy, 1900s– Shabbos goy, 1900s– Shabes goy. Also with lower-case initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Yiddish lexical item. Etymons: Shabbos n., goy n.
Etymology: < Shabbos n. + goy n., after Yiddish shabes-goy. Compare earlier Shabbat goy n., and also earlier Shabbos goyah n.
Originally and chiefly in Jewish usage: a non-Jewish person who performs for strictly Orthodox Jews tasks forbidden to them on the Sabbath; = Shabbat goy n. Also occasionally figurative. Cf. Shabbos goyah n.
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Shabbat goy1859
Shabbos goyah1862
Shabbos goy1905
Sabbath goy1977
1905 Menorah Feb. 126/2 He once occupied that unique, and, in America, impossible position of the Shabbas Goy.
1959 F. M. Wilson They came as Strangers iii. iii. 194 Victor Gollancz's parents were strictly orthodox,..never took a bus on the Sabbath and had a Shabbes goy to light the fires on that day.
1978 Maledicta 1977 1 323 Reinhold Aman, president, director, chief-lucubrator and shabes-goy of Maledicta, edits, typesets and publishes this journal considered by the repressed as a Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names vi. 192 ‘Teach me,’ I repeat, ‘or I won't be your Shabbes-goy’—that's what they call anyone who lights their Sabbath fire.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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