SHABBAS GOY


Meaning of SHABBAS GOY in English

noun

or shabbos goy

Usage: usually capitalized S

Etymology: Yiddish shabes goy, from shabes Sabbath + goy gentile, from Hebrew gōy people, nation

: a non-Jew employed by Orthodox Jews to perform services (as turning lights on and off) which are forbidden to Jews on the Sabbath

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