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Are GOYS both goils and boys? No gender specificity? Why not GOYO and GOYA?

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Posted - August 27, 2016

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    "Goy" is the non-gender specific singular for one non-Jewish person and "goyim" refers to more than one non-Jew.  A non-Jewish female is a "shiksa" and a non-Jewish male is a "shagitz."

      August 27, 2016 12:48 PM MDT
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