单词 | shabbos goy |
释义 | Shabbos goyn. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > secular work done on > person performing 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). < n.1905 |
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