• (UK)IPA^(key):/ɔɪ/

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• Rhymes:-ɔɪ

Variant of the interjectionhoy with h-dropping inworking class andCockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portugueseoi and Japaneseおい(oi).

oi(UK,Ireland,Hong Kong,Commonwealth, usually impolite)

1. Said to get someone'sattention;hey.

   Synonyms:hey,yo;see alsoThesaurus:hey

   Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing?

   Oi! Stop that!

2. Anexpression ofsurprise.

   Synonyms:blimey,whoa;see alsoThesaurus:wow

   Oi! This is new!

3. Aninformalgreeting, similar tohi.

   Synonyms:wotcher,yo

   Oi! How's it going?

• oi oi

oi (uncountable)

1. (UK, sometimescapitalized) Aworking-classpunk rocksubgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated withracism.
   • 1997, David Schwarz,Listening subjects: music, psychoanalysis, culture:

     A way forOi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves.

   • 2012, Tiffini Travis, Perry Hardy,Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture:

     Oi! is characterized by cleaner guitars and slower tempos than most punk music, and manyOi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.

Variant ofoy, from Yiddish.

oi

1. Alternative spelling ofoy

oi

1. (representing rural dialect pronunciation)I.

   Sometimesoi sits and thinks, and sometimesoi just sits.

   • 1877,W. S. Gilbert,The Sorcerer, Act II:

     Why, where beoi, and what beoi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?

Borrowed fromoyez, 2nd person plural imperative of the verboir(“to listen”), as used as an interjection in duplicated form“Oyez, oyez” by public speakers of medieval times to draw attention before a public address; seeoi oi.

oi

1. Alternative spelling ofoy

• I/O,IO,Io,i/o,io,io-

oi

1. water

• ABVD

Inherited fromLatinodium.Doublet ofodi.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈɔj]

oi m (pluralois)

1. (archaic)hatred
2. (Mallorca, chiefly in the plural)aversion,revulsion,nausea

Inherited fromLatinhoc.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈɔj]

oi

1. used at the end of a sentence, or withque at the beginning to make atag question
   • 1994, Ferran Canyameres, Montserrat Canyameres,Obra completa IV, page194:

     Oi que ho farà? Digui que sí.

     Won't you do it? Say you will.

2. indicates agreement with a statement:yeah;that's right

• IPA^(key):(Central,Valencia)[ˈɔj]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic)[ˈoj]

oi

1. indicates surprise:whoa;hey
2. indicates physical pain:ouch

• “oi” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compareEstonianoi,Ingrianoi,Karelianoi,Ludianoi,Vepsoi,Voticoi) and neighboring Indo-European languages (Swedishoj,Latvianoi,Russianой(oj)).

• IPA^(key):/ˈoi̯/,[ˈo̞i̯]
• Rhymes:-oi
• Hyphenation^(key):oi

oi

1. (poetic)O,oh

   Oi Herra! (O Lord!)

2. oh(to express surprise, wonder, amazement or awe)

• “oi”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

• -io

• IPA^(key):[ˈoj],[ˈɔj]

oi

1. hey

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “oi”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “oi”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “oi”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

oi

1. 2nd-person singular pronoun:you

oi

1. Rōmaji transcription ofおい

• IPA^(key):/oj/

oi (upper caseOi)

1. A letter of theKiowa alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters)A a,Ai ai,Au au,Aui aui,B̶ b̶,B b,D̶ d̶,D d,E e,G̶ g̶,G g,H h,I i,K k,Kʼ kʼ,L l,M m,N n,n̶,O o,Oi oi,P p,Pʼ pʼ,S s,T t,Tʼ tʼ,Ts ts,Tsʼ tsʼ,U u,Ui ui,W w,Y y,Z z,꞉

oi (Hebrew spellingאויי)

1. (Romania)Alternative spelling ofoy
   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel,Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[2], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita,→OCLC,page13:

     Los ijos de tus fideles siervos vinieronoi a tu templo
     Azen orasion por sus vidas i ti aderesan sus apelo
     Azen memoria de sus padres delantre de ti, dio eternelo
     Acodrate de eios siempre i apeiadate de tu puevlo

     Today the children of your faithful servants come to your temple. They pray for their lives and they speak to your name. They remember their parents before you, Lord God. Always remind yourself of them and take pity on your folk.

• IPA^(key):/oi̯/
• Rhymes:-oi̯

oi (Jawi spellingوي)

1. Alternative form ofhoi(“hey”)

   Oi, apa kau buat tu?!

   Hey, what are you doing there?!

• “oi” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

FromMiddle High Germanei, fromOld High Germanei, fromProto-West Germanic*aij, fromProto-Germanic*ajją, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ōwyóm(“egg”). Cognate withGermanEi, obsoleteEnglishey.

oi n

1. egg

• Anthony R. Rowley,Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

• oï

Inherited fromLatinaudītus.

oi

1. pastparticiple ofoir

General interjection sound. Compare unrelated Englishoi.

• Rhymes:-oj
• Hyphenation:oi

oi

1. (chieflyBrazil)hey

   Synonym:olá

   Oi, Maria!

   Hey, Mary!

• → Hunsrik:oi

oi?

1. (chieflyBrazil,informal)sorry?I beg your pardon?excuse me?(request to repeat a message that wasn’t heard or understood clearly)

   Synonym:(more formal)como?perdão?

• ой(oi)

• IPA^(key):/oj/
• Rhymes:-oj

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

oi f

1. inflection ofoaie:
   1. indefinitegenitive/dativesingular
   2. indefinitenominative/accusative/genitive/dativeplural

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

(eu) oi (modal auxiliary,first-personsingular form ofvrea,used withinfinitives to formpresumptive tenses)

1. (I)might

   Oimerge-nBucureștimâine.

   Imight go to Bucharest tomorrow.

(tu) oi (modal auxiliary,second-personsingular form ofvrea,used withinfinitives to formpresumptive tenses)

1. (you)might

   Crezicăoivreacevadebăutmaitârziu?

   Do you think that youmight want something to drink later?

• oje,oze(Nuorese)
• oe(Logudorese)

Inherited fromLatinhodiē.

oi

1. (Campidanese)today

• oji
• oggi,uoggi(borrowed from Italianoggi)

Inherited fromLatinhodie.

oi

1. today

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[ʔɔj˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[ʔɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[ʔɔj˧˧]

FromProto-Austroasiatic*ʔuːr ~ ʔoːr.

oi• (煨)

1. (weather)hot andoppressive,sultry

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

(classifiercái,chiếc)oi

1. (fishing)creel

• IPA^(key):/ˈo.i/

oi

1. ginger

• IPA^(key):/ˈo.i/

oi

1. mosquito

• IPA^(key):/ˈo.i/

oi

1. (stative) to befull

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics (etymologies 2 and 3 asoi)

• ori(Èkìtì)

• IPA^(key):/ō.ī/

oi

1. (Ondo) A type of Yoruba food made fromcornflour typically eaten withmọ́ínmọ́ín oràkàrà.

   Synonym:ẹ̀kọ

   Oi é è yọ̀n yéye. ―Corn pap isn't very tasty. (Oǹdó)

   Inọ́n ùkòkò dínún òunoi fifun tì jáde í. ―It is from inside a black pot that whitecorn pap comes from. (Oǹdó)

• IPA^(key):/oi̯˧/

oi

1. belly

• gil

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page41