goy n.
a gentile, a non-Jew; thus pl. goyim (note Jewish stereotyping in cite. 1950).
[ | An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy II 105: Yet this is no hardship on them, because they never voluntarily mix with the Gohims, as they [i.e. the Jews] call us, and superstitiously abhor all food that is not dressed by cooks of their own persuasion]. | |
Zincali (1846) 88: The Gentiles, by whom they are hated and despised, and whom they hate and despise, under the names of Busnees and Goyim. | ||
Miriam Rosenbaum 57: You forget even the incongruous presence of the gojah. | ||
Houndsditch Day by Day 90: A shweet little pit o’ gonophin [...] which is likely to git him a pit o’ vhat de Goyus’s call ‘time’. | ||
Types From City Streets 299: He went down to the ‘Ghetto’ as a ‘Goy’ might have gone. | ||
Ulysses 416: I told you not to go with drunken goy ever. | ||
Manhattan Transfer 356: You took to running wild in dance halls with a goy. | ||
(con. 1900s) ‘Master’ and Men 296: The Goyisher brings an action, an’ wins. | ||
Call It Sleep (1977) 216: Goys is dumb. | ||
I Can Get It For You Wholesale 259: I had to laugh at these goyim and their politeness. | ||
An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 130: A rendezvous of the ‘goys’ and loafers. | ||
(con. 1944) Naked and Dead 127: The goyim, that’s all they know, to fight with their fists. | ||
Penguin New Writing No.40 35: Speaking derisively of the Dropper and his girl as a couple of goys. | ‘Impatience’ in Lehmann||
No Hiding Place! 190/2: Goy. Loafer. | ||
Tough Guy [ebook] The street of the goyem, the street of the Irisher pogromchiks. | ||
Guntz 136: If you see anyone shicker the chances are it’s a goy. | ||
Dead Butler Caper 107: A goy don’t know nutting about the art de makin’ a business deal. | ||
One Police Plaza 347: Listen to me, you thickheaded goy! | ||
Godson 138: was Les Norton, the ‘goyim’ [sic] who had brassed him for ten weeks rent. | ||
White Shoes 64: Norton was the big dumb goy. | ||
From Bondage 47: I could never marry him, he’s a goy. [Ibid.] 315: ‘Oh, such goyim as they are,’ Hannah disparaged. | ||
(con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 220: My father once said that Wonder bread was ‘manna for the goyim’. | ||
Mad mag. Apr. 31: Goyim or not, this is going to be a wonderful weekend. | ||
OG Dad 101: Your bundle of joy. (Or bundle of goy in this case, since I’m purebred East Coast bagel and mom’s the Southern blonde). |