goyish

American  

[goi-ish] / ˈgɔɪ ɪʃ /

adjective

Usually Disparaging.

1. being, pertaining to, or characteristic of a goy or goys.

   explaining Passover to my goyish boss;

   a goyish version of chicken soup.

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Sensitive Note

See goy.

Etymology

Origin of goyish

goy + -ish ¹

Compare meaning

How does goyish compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• goyish vs. Jewish

Example Sentences

Though my parents thought the house was too basic, too rustic, too goyish—my father wanted to build her a house in Zakopane, the more fashionable mountain town where Jews summered—I thought Babci’s cottage was heaven on earth.

From Literature

Postwar Hollywood tackled the issue of antisemitism — from a goyish viewpoint — in films like “Gentleman’s Agreement,” in which Gregory Peck played a journalist posing as a Jew to root out bigotry.

From New York Times

In my Monday column about 92-year-old Gerry Steinkeller’s much-delayed bar mitzvah, I evidenced an imperfect, goyish notion of Judaism.

From Washington Post

This week’s actual guest star is Elayne Boosler, and for those too goyish to know who that is, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend provides a handy explainer: “You’ve got your Totie Fields, your Joan Rivers, your Fran Drescher, and then you got your Elayne Boosler,” Naomi tells Valencia of the comedian, who is allegedly a childhood friend she met at the affluent “Camp Kavetcha.”

From Slate

If you work in the Trump administration, you are goyish even if you are Jewish.

From Washington Post