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goy
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Definition:1. a gentile (non-Jewish person)2. a term used by an orthodox Jew to refer to a non-practicing Jew
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“Hey, Rabbi, how about some whisky? Lil Scotch and soda. I know you G? nim never lap up anything but snow-cooled nectar handed out by a maiden with a dulcimer, singing of Mount Abora, or maybe just a little shot of Christian children’s sacrificial blood— ha, ha, just a joke, Rabbi; I know these ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ are all the bunk, but awful handy in propaganda, just the same and—— But I mean, for plain Goyim like us, a little real hootch! Hear me?”
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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VIRAG: (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward. He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls.) Verfluchte Goim! He had a father, forty fathers.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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RUDOLPH: Second halfcrown waste money today. I told you not go with drunken goy ever. So you catch no money.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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