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gori mem en · NOUN

Etymology

From Hindi गोरी मेम (gorī mem), from गोरी (gorī, “fair, white skinned”) + मेम (mem), from English ma'am.

Meanings

  1. (India) A white woman.
    • Dark skinned as he was, he was most likely to be slighted and thrown out by that gori mem. 2010, Govinda Miśra, translated by Masooma Ali, The House with Five Courtyards, Penguin, page 211:
    • At forty he had finally realized a childhood fantasy—to fuck a white woman, a gori mem. 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 12:
    • In the past, parents were concerned about getting a gori mem as a daughter-in-law, but I am modern. 2013, Eric J Lott, Life in a Cubicle, page 189: