gori mem

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

gori mem

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