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单词 goy
释义

goy

noun

ˈgȯi How to pronounce goy (audio)
plural goyim ˈgȯi-əm How to pronounce goy (audio) also goys
sometimes disparaging
: a non-Jewish person : gentile sense 1
"You were my uncle," Duddy shouted, "and I thought it was the right thing to tell you the goy was stealing from you." Mordecai Richler
In the Yiddish-speaking world of the Lower East Side, with its all-Jewish streets and all-Jewish schools, it was possible to regard the goyim as unmarriageable aliens. Jonathan Raban
Our rabbi … used to tell us not to let the goyim, those people outside the invisible wall, know if we had any differences among ourselves. Nat Hentoff
… what we Jews call Torah and goys call the Old Testament … Robert Little
goyish
ˈgȯi-ish How to pronounce goy (audio)
adjective sometimes disparaging
Jewish or goyish was the grand bifurcation of the universe. If, on rare occasion, my parent uttered a sentence that did not contain the word "Jewish," odds were it contained "goyish" instead. Aaron Lansky
"What kind of a name is Rosemary?" asked one of the girls … "It is a goyish name … Do you mean to say your best friend is not a Jew?" Jane Yolen
goyishness noun sometimes disparaging
Renee is a lapsed Orthodox Jew trying to embrace the life of the mind amid the "genteel goyishness" of Princeton. Frances Taliaferro

Word History

Etymology

Yiddish, from Hebrew gōy people, nation

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

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