Meaning

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

    Goi, Nichtjude

    гойgoj

    гойhoj

    a Christian as contrasted with a Jew

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

  3. (Internet, broadly)A mindless consumer of low-quality entertainment and products ("goyslop"); a consoomer.

    Near-synonym: NPC

Examples

16 sentences
  1. The literal meaning of "goy" is "nation."

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  2. Similar bad-faith arguments are made against the words "goy" and "cis."

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  3. The word goy likely is derived from gev, meaning body or torso.

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  4. Antisemites have for some time disingenuously claimed the word "goy" to be a slur.

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  5. Tom is a goy.

    ruТом – гой.

    deTom ist ein Goi.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nat

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

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