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  • a variation of goy.

goi

American  
[goi] / gɔɪ /

noun

  • goyim,
    plural
  • gois
    plural
  1. a less common variant of goy.


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The goi pa, a vibrant fish salad, is shimmering and opulent, scented with many kinds of mint, the meaty pieces almost invisible among a generous mass of makrut lime leaves and red onion.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2022

The menu features Vietnamese staples such as bo luc lac and bun chao tom, along with Cajun fries, salmon-filled goi cuon and escargot dishes.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2019

Recommended Dishes Pho ga; pho ga kho; com ga Hoi An; goi ga; soda chanh.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2017

He came to chapter 45.That old prophet had just told the exiled Jews that they would be saved by a goi, by the Gentle, Cyrus the Persian.

From Time May 25, 2014

Hance What ſegt ye by gots drowſe, dai is de quade man Be de moro goi, ic my ſelfe loue de ſcone Engliſhman.

From The Interlude of Wealth and Health by Percy Simpson

Unto the Death gois all Estatis, Princis, Prelatis, and Potestatis, Baith rich and poor of all degree:—     Timor Mortis conturbat me.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Eird gois apone eird glitterand as gold, 16 Ȝit sall eird go to eird sonar nor he wold.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

The knychtis al out of the cete roß 988 Of melyholt, and to the ſemble gois.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

I see that makaris amang the lave Playis here their padyanis, syne gois to grave; Sparit is nocht their facultie:—     Timor Mortis conturbat me.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

One the morn arly vp ſche roß Without delay, and to the knycht ſche gois, And twk hir lef, and ſaid that ſcho vald fare 2788 On to the court, with-outen any mare.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

The Hebrew word goyim, in early Bible history, was equivalent to our word nation. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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