gori mem

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.