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goyem

goyem is the plural of goy.

Meaning of goy

Noun

goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem or goyin)

  1. (offensive, sometimes) A non-Jew; a gentile.
    • I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
  2. (derogatory) Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)
    Synonyms:
    shabbos goy
  3. (Internet, broadly) A mindless consumer of low-quality entertainment and products ("goyslop"); a consoomer.
    • Near-synonym: NPC
    Synonyms:
    NPC

See all 4 meanings of goy

Questions about goyem

What is goyem the plural of?
Goyem is the plural of goy.

Words near goyem in the dictionary

  1. goybeams
  2. goybuck
  3. goybucks
  4. goycattle
  5. Goyder
  6. goyem
  7. Goyeneche
  8. Goyer
  9. Goyers
  10. Goyesque
  11. Goyet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goyem (page history and authors); goy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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