goy

Clipping of English Goundo with y as a placeholder.

goy

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Goundo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Goundo terms

• Goy
• goi, Goi

Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew גּוֹי (goy, “nation”).

Compare Exodus 19:6: מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים וְגֹוי קָדֹושׁ (mamleḵeṯ kohănīm wəḡōy qāḏōš, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word 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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem or goyin)

1. (sometimes offensive) A non-Jew, a gentile.

   Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew, (pejorative) akum, (pejorative) shegetz, (pejorative) shkotz

   Hyponym: (female) shiksa

   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     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.

2. (neo-Nazism, derogatory) Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)

• This noun is sometimes taken to be offensive; speakers wishing to avoid offense may prefer the term gentile (sometimes capitalized as Gentile) or simply non-Jew.
• The plural goyim is occasionally misinterpreted as a singular form by people unfamiliar with Hebrew, yielding redundant plural forms such as goyims.

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goy

1. (Mpakwithi) buck wallaby

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Clipped from migoy, diminutive of migo, from amigo.

goy

1. (colloquial) buddy (Used to address a male friend.)

From Hebrew גוי.

goy m (Hebrew spelling גוי, plural goyim, feminine goya)

1. goy, gentile, non-Jew

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “goy, yá”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “goyim”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC

goy m or f by sense (plural goys)

1. alternative spelling of gói

Possibly by influence from English guy, by association with gay.

goy m (plural goys)

1. a homosexual male who does not assume himself as such; a closeted gay

• "Goy" in Dicionário Informal.

Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoi/ [ˈɡoi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification: goy

goy m or f by sense (plural goyim)

1. (sometimes offensive) goy

   Synonym: gentil