"You were my uncle," Duddy shouted, "and I thought it was the right thing to tell you the goy was stealing from you." Mordecai Richler
In the Yiddish-speaking world of the Lower East Side, with its all-Jewish streets and all-Jewish schools, it was possible to regard the goyim as unmarriageable aliens. Jonathan Raban
Our rabbi … used to tell us not to let the goyim, those people outside the invisible wall, know if we had any differences among ourselves. Nat Hentoff
… what we Jews call Torah and goys call the Old Testament … Robert Little
Jewish or goyish was the grand bifurcation of the universe. If, on rare occasion, my parent uttered a sentence that did not contain the word "Jewish," odds were it contained "goyish" instead. Aaron Lansky
"What kind of a name is Rosemary?" asked one of the girls … "It is a goyish name … Do you mean to say your best friend is not a Jew?" Jane Yolen
goyishnessnounsometimes disparaging
Renee is a lapsed Orthodox Jew trying to embrace the life of the mind amid the "genteel goyishness" of Princeton. Frances Taliaferro