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Examples of goy
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Because when it comes to latkes, I'm just a goy who can't say no.
From the denverpost.com
When Roth is in the same fix, we know that some luckless goy chick is about to get it in the face.
From the theatlantic.com
Goy, 32, of Crystal Lake, turned his head and gazed up at the ceiling as Judge Sharon Prather read the guilty verdict.
From the dailyherald.com
Bring in the U.N. as a shabbes goy to tend them.
From the time.com
If it's lard, you're a goy.
From the washingtonpost.com
Goy punched Carlsen during a confrontation involving several people outside The Cottage, a tavern in downtown Crystal Lake.
From the dailyherald.com
His wife has left him for a goy.
From the time.com
As a goy who was born and raised in Australia, where the book was banned, and who first read it in England, where it wasn't, I couldn't see their point at the time.
From the theatlantic.com
I was a Shabbos goy, which means that on Friday nights I would go over to people's houses and turn on and off the electrical switch so that they would have lights.
From the npr.org
- Gentile: a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
- Goy (English /u0261u0254u026A/, Hebrew: u05D2u05D5u05D9u200Eu200E, regular plural goyim /u02C8u0261u0254u026Au026Am/, u05D2u05D5u05D9u05DD or u05D2u05D5u05D9u05D9u05DD) is the standard Hebrew biblical term for a nation...
- Goy is a 2008 thriller film by German directors Felix Kersting and Marc Schaumburg.
- A non-Jew, a Gentile
- (Hebrew, "nation"; Yiddish, "Gentile"). Non-Jew. Sometimes used pejoratively, but the word itself is not negative.
- If a non-Jew is a goy, then something not Jewish is goyish. However, goyish doesn't necessarily have anything to do with religion. Lenny Bruce, a well-known Jewish comedian from the 1960s, tried to explain in this way:
- A Jewish colloquial term for a non-Jew.
- Any person who is not Jewish
- Gentiles (also: nation).
