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goy
English
Alternative forms
- Goy
- goi, Goi
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish ???? (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew ?????? (goi, “nation”).
Compare Exodus 19:6: ????? ????? ???? ???? (mamlekhet kohanim wegoy qadosh, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word goy technically refers not 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem)
- A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes)
- Synonyms: akum, gentile, shegetz, shkotz
- Hyponym: (female) shiksa
Usage notes
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.
Derived terms
- anti-goy
- antigoyism
- anti-goyish
- goyish
- shabbos goy
Translations
Anagrams
- ygo
Anguthimri
Noun
goy
- (Mpakwithi) buck wallaby
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186
Ladino
Etymology
From Hebrew ????.
Noun
goy m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????, plural goyim, feminine goya)
- goy, gentile, non-Jew
Portuguese
Noun
goy m, f (plural goys)
- Alternative spelling of gói
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noy
English
Etymology
Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /n??/
Verb
noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)
- (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- "In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe."]
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Alternative forms
- noie (obsolete)
Noun
noy
- (obsolete) annoyance
Anagrams
- Yon, yon
Catalan
Noun
noy m (plural noys)
- Obsolete spelling of noi
Further reading
- “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
noy From the web:
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