Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
goyishe
English answer:
non-Jewish
English term
Devoting myself to translation
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, and 2 more.
goyishe
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Michael Powers (PhD)
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Crystal Samples
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Refugio
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Dec 24, 2007 12:21: writeaway changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Dec 24, 2007 12:42: Fabio Descalzi changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Jan 7, 2008 04:02: Michael Powers (PhD) Created KOG entry
PRO (1): Michael Powers (PhD)
Non-PRO (1): JaneTranslates
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United States
US Court Cert. 1980 Ph.D. 1981
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
non-Jewish
goyishe goyish gentile goy goyische
1. goyishe
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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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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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Zoya Nayshtut
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Thank you, flieder - Mike :)
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moranna (X)
: or goyische
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Thank you, moranna - absolutely - Mike :)
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Richard Benham
: The "-ishe" makes it Yiddish, although I assume "goy", with its plural "goyim", is Hebrew.
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Thank you, Richard - could very well be, I am not really sure - Mike :)
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jccantrell
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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'."
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Thank you, Suzan, for an interesting explanation - Mike :)
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Gunilla Zedigh
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Thank you, Gunilla - Mike :)
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V_Nedkov
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orientalhorizon
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Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
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mistahara (X)
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Cristina Santos
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Patricia Townshend (X)
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MA in Translation + Trados
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
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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.
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orientalhorizon
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