goy
Portuguese, noun
goy is spelled G-O-Y (3 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Goy is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of gói” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver gói”.
What does goy mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinealternative form of gói
noun
- 1
masculinecloseted gay man; a homosexual male who does not assume himself as such
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver gói
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of goy
- goys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is goy in Portuguese?
goy appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).