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GOY (goyim)
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Irregular inflected form: goyim
Dictionary entry overview: What does goy mean?
• GOY (noun)
The noun GOY has 1 sense:
1. a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
Familiarity information: GOY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Christian as contrasted with a Jew
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("goy" is a kind of...):
Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goy"):
shegetz (an offensive term for non-Jewish young man)
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