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goyims

goyims 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

Origin of goyims

Formed by the misinterpretation of goyim as a singular by people unfamiliar with Hebrew.

Questions about goyims

What is goyims the plural of?
Goyims is the plural of goy.

Words near goyims in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goyims (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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