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goyishe

English translation: non-Jewish

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English term or phrase: goyishe
Selected answer:non-Jewish
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

12:16 Dec 24, 2007
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: goyishe
While I am neither biased against non-Jewish physicians, nor a Jewish chauvinist like my father, I am convinced, superstitiously, and surely erroneously, that if my doctor had been named Abramowitz or Cohen, if I had given birth at Mount Sinai, if I had not been touched by those goyishe hands in that goyishe hospital, my daughter would be alive today.
Shirley Fan
Local time: 12:28
non-Jewish
Explanation:
Urban Dictionary

goyishe goyish gentile goy goyische
1. goyishe
13 up, 5 down


Hebrew/Yiddish term for someone/thing which is not Jewish. (See: goyish, goyische.)

"Descendants of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America, you and your children and their children with the goyishe names. You live in America. No such place exists. Your clay is the clay of some Litvak shtetl, your air the air of the steppes--because she carried the old world on her back across the ocean, in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue, or in Flatbush, and she worked that earth into your bones, and you pass it to your children, this ancient, ancient culture and home." --Angels In America, Tony Kushner.

Mike :)

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-12-24 12:22:06 GMT)
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It is actually Yiddish and thus incorporated, to a certain degree, into English via Yiddish.

Yiddish Dictionary
If you enjoy this glossary, please send your friends to this page. ..... Goyishe kupp (goy-ish-sheh kupp) literally, a gentile head. ...
www.bubbygram.com/yiddishglossary.htm - 140k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Everyday Yiddish-English-Yiddish Dictionary (Starting with "G")
Goyische kop; Goyisheh kop; Goyischeh kop; Goyishe; Goyisheh; Goyische ... Submit your glossary or dictionary for publishing at TranslationDirectory.com ...
www.translationdirectory.com/dictionaries/dictionary004_g.h... - 297k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 00:28
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +12non-Jewish
Michael Powers (PhD)
5 +2gentile
Crystal Samples
4 +1goyish
Refugio


Discussion entries: 1





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
gentile


Explanation:
goy = a non-Jewish person; gentile.


Crystal Samples
United States
Local time: 23:28
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Benham: There is a joke about the Pope, a Jewish bell-founder and a bell that rang out "Goyim! Goyim! Goyim!...", but I can't tell it here.
7 mins
agree  orientalhorizon
12 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +12
non-Jewish


Explanation:
Urban Dictionary

goyishe goyish gentile goy goyische
1. goyishe
13 up, 5 down


Hebrew/Yiddish term for someone/thing which is not Jewish. (See: goyish, goyische.)

"Descendants of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America, you and your children and their children with the goyishe names. You live in America. No such place exists. Your clay is the clay of some Litvak shtetl, your air the air of the steppes--because she carried the old world on her back across the ocean, in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue, or in Flatbush, and she worked that earth into your bones, and you pass it to your children, this ancient, ancient culture and home." --Angels In America, Tony Kushner.

Mike :)

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-12-24 12:22:06 GMT)
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It is actually Yiddish and thus incorporated, to a certain degree, into English via Yiddish.

Yiddish Dictionary
If you enjoy this glossary, please send your friends to this page. ..... Goyishe kupp (goy-ish-sheh kupp) literally, a gentile head. ...
www.bubbygram.com/yiddishglossary.htm - 140k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Everyday Yiddish-English-Yiddish Dictionary (Starting with "G")
Goyische kop; Goyisheh kop; Goyischeh kop; Goyishe; Goyisheh; Goyische ... Submit your glossary or dictionary for publishing at TranslationDirectory.com ...
www.translationdirectory.com/dictionaries/dictionary004_g.h... - 297k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 00:28
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 120
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Zoya Nayshtut
1 min
  -> Thank you, flieder - Mike :)
agree  moranna (X): or goyische
3 mins
  -> Thank you, moranna - absolutely - Mike :)
agree  Richard Benham: The "-ishe" makes it Yiddish, although I assume "goy", with its plural "goyim", is Hebrew.
7 mins
  -> Thank you, Richard - could very well be, I am not really sure - Mike :)
agree  jccantrell: Have to go with the firstest.
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, jccantrell - Mike :)
agree  Suzan Hamer: Leo Rosten, in "The Joys of Yiddish": A Gentile, i.e. anyone who is not a Jew. . . Mormons call any non-Mormon a Gentile; Jews are therefore Gentiles to Mormons...The plural is pronounced Goy-im. The adjective is goyish...from the Hebrew goy: 'nation'."
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Suzan, for an interesting explanation - Mike :)
agree  Gunilla Zedigh
4 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gunilla - Mike :)
agree  V_Nedkov
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, V. - Mike :)
agree  orientalhorizon
12 hrs
  -> Thank you, oreintalhorizon - Mike :)
agree  Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
22 hrs
  -> Thank you, Saleh - Mike :)
agree  mistahara (X)
23 hrs
  -> Thank you, mistahara - Mike :)
agree  Cristina Santos
1 day 8 hrs
agree  Patricia Townshend (X)
3 days 4 hrs
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1 day 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
goyish


Explanation:
We have the word in English too.

Refugio
Local time: 21:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 120

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Powers (PhD): Thank you, Ruth - Mike :)
1 hr
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