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goyim

/ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/

goyim 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

Noun capitalized: Goyim

Goyim

  1. (plural) plural of Goy

Synonyms of goyim

Origin of goyim

Borrowed from Hebrew גּוֹיִים.

Phrases with goyim

Questions about goyim

What is goyim the plural of?
Goyim is the plural of goy.
What part of speech is goyim?
Goyim is a noun.
How do you pronounce goyim?
Goyim is pronounced /ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/.

Words near goyim in the dictionary

  1. Goyet
  2. Goyet dog
  3. Goyet dogs
  4. Goyette
  5. Goyettes
  6. goyim
  7. goyims
  8. goyin
  9. goyisch
  10. goyische
  11. goyish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goyim (page history and authors); Goyim (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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