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goy
noun
A non-Jew, a gentile.
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João was a poor, gentile scholarship student, who – unlike some others – did not resist being bullied as a "son-of-a-bitch goy".
Baker is an oddity even in the oddball-ridden world of Yiddish theatre: a goy from the Midwest who was raised Episcopalian.
The lone goy, Robert Motherwell, painted an oil-on-Masonite mural — after consulting his former art-history professor, the legendary Meyer Schapiro, who advised him to swing by the Jewish Museum for inspiration.
And... and, yes, he is my goy".
From then on, Rubinstein took the young man everywhere, even to a state dinner with the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who asked her, "Who's your goy?" Rubinstein replied, "That's Patrick!
He called it "the land of suntanned Trotskys in delis," and he lampooned the residents for their loyalty to "Bill, their shameless shaygitz," and "Al, their Shabbos goy".
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It's like the goy-ish version of guilt in a way — looking backward instead of forward, giving the finger to the natural chain of cause and effect, which is the whole premise of education.
Gerstel responded by posting a sign on his door on Saturdays directing customers to a sort of shabbos-goy gold buyer stationed in the back of a Chinese-run computer store down the street.
Like a lot of women, I suspect, I fell in love with her while watching "The Way We Were," the 1973 Sydney Pollack romance about two college students – she plays a fiery leftist and Robert Redford is her coolly apolitical goy-toy, i.e., "gorgeous goyisher guy" – who meet in the 1930s, fall in love but are driven apart by their differences.
Early in the program she took the audience back to her high school production of "Fiddler on the Roof" with, as she put it, an "all-goy" cast.
Well, at this point Roth put aside a book called "Jewboy," and after "years of misery" (five of them), produced "When She Was Good," a straight-faced, all-goy saga set in a prim and mannerly Midwestern town.
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