Goy
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Goy is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew, sometimes in a pejorative sense. The word, of Hebrew origin, was adopted into English from Yiddish. It carries a similar meaning in Modern Hebrew.
A page from Elia Levita's Yiddish–Hebrew–Latin–German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning heathen or pagan.
Shabbos goy
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A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work that Jewish religious law prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat.
Goy
…a derogatory word. Similarly, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) has stated that goy is "Not an insult, just kinda sounds like it." The term Shabbos goy, which refers to a non-Jew who performs certain tasks forbidden to Jews on Shabbat, is an example of common usage that, while drawing attention to the…
A car in Jerusalem with a sign in the window that reads "goy shel shabbat" in Hebrew