Green’s Dictionary of Slang

goy n.

also goyisher, goyus
[Heb. goy, a nation, thence Yid.; pl. goyim]

a gentile, a non-Jew; thus pl. goyim (note Jewish stereotyping in cite. 1950).

[J. Baretti 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].
G. Borrow 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.
[UK]A. Edersheim Miriam Rosenbaum 57: You forget even the incongruous presence of the gojah.
[UK]A. Binstead 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’.
[US]H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 299: He went down to the ‘Ghetto’ as a ‘Goy’ might have gone.
[Ire]Joyce Ulysses 416: I told you not to go with drunken goy ever.
[US]Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer 356: You took to running wild in dance halls with a goy.
[UK](con. 1900s) J.B. Booth ‘Master’ and Men 296: The Goyisher brings an action, an’ wins.
[US]H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 216: Goys is dumb.
[US]J. Weidman I Can Get It For You Wholesale 259: I had to laugh at these goyim and their politeness.
[UK]S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 130: A rendezvous of the ‘goys’ and loafers.
[US](con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 127: The goyim, that’s all they know, to fight with their fists.
[UK]W. Sansom ‘Impatience’ in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No.40 35: Speaking derisively of the Dropper and his girl as a couple of goys.
[UK]P. Hoskins No Hiding Place! 190/2: Goy. Loafer.
[US]B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] The street of the goyem, the street of the Irisher pogromchiks.
[UK]F. Norman Guntz 136: If you see anyone shicker the chances are it’s a goy.
[UK]F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 107: A goy don’t know nutting about the art de makin’ a business deal.
[US]W.J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 347: Listen to me, you thickheaded goy!
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Godson 138: was Les Norton, the ‘goyim’ [sic] who had brassed him for ten weeks rent.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett White Shoes 64: Norton was the big dumb goy.
[US]H. Roth From Bondage 47: I could never marry him, he’s a goy. [Ibid.] 315: ‘Oh, such goyim as they are,’ Hannah disparaged.
[US](con. 1998–2000) J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 220: My father once said that Wonder bread was ‘manna for the goyim’.
[US]Mad mag. Apr. 31: Goyim or not, this is going to be a wonderful weekend.
[US]J. Stahl 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).