oi

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Variant of the interjection hoy with h-dropping in working class and Cockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portuguese oi and Japanese おい (oi).

oi (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, usually impolite)

1. Said to get someone's attention; hey.

   Synonyms: hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey

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

   Oi! Stop that!

2. An expression of surprise.

   Synonyms: blimey, whoa; see also Thesaurus:wow

   Oi! This is new!

3. An informal greeting, similar to hi.

   Synonyms: wotcher, yo

   Oi! How's it going?

• oi oi

oi (uncountable)

1. (UK, sometimes capitalized) A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
   • 1997, David Schwarz, Listening subjects: music, psychoanalysis, culture:

     A way for Oi 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 many Oi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.

Variant of oy, from Yiddish.

oi

1. Alternative spelling of oy

oi

1. (representing rural dialect pronunciation) I.

   Sometimes oi sits and thinks, and sometimes oi just sits.

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

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

Borrowed from oyez, 2nd person plural imperative of verb oir meaning 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; see oi oi.

oi

1. Alternative spelling of oy

• I/O, IO, Io, i/o, io, io-

oi

1. water

• ABVD

Inherited from Latin odium. Doublet of odi.

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

oi m (plural ois)

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

Inherited from Latin hoc.

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

oi

1. used at the end of a sentence, or with que at the beginning to make a tag question
   • 1994, Ferran Canyameres, Montserrat Canyameres, Obra completa IV, page 194:

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

oi

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

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

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian oi, Ingrian oi, Karelian oi, Ludian oi, Veps oi, Votic oi) and neighboring Indo-European languages (Swedish oj, Latvian oi, Russian ой).

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

oi

1. (poetic) O, oh

   Oi Herra! (O Lord!)

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

• “oi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• -io

• IPA^(key): [ˈoj], [ˈɔj]

oi

1. hey

• “oi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “oi” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “oi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

oi

1. 2nd-person singular pronoun: you

oi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おい

• IPA^(key): /oi̯/
• Rhymes: -oi̯

oi (Jawi spelling وي)

1. Alternative form of hoi (“hey”)

   Oi, apa kau buat tu?!

   Hey, what are you doing there?!

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

From Middle High German ei, from Old High German ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with German Ei, obsolete English ey.

oi n

1. egg

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

• oï

From Latin audītus.

oi

1. past participle of oir

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: oi

oi

1. (chiefly Brazil) hey

   Oi, Maria!

   Hey, Mary!

oi?

1. (chiefly Brazil, 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?

• IPA^(key): /oj/
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun form.

oi f

1. inflection of oaie:
   1. indefinite genitive/dative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative/genitive/dative plural

Verb form.

(eu) oi (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

1. (I) might

   Oi merge-n București mâine.

   I might go to Bucharest tomorrow.

(tu) oi (modal auxiliary, second-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

1. (you) might

   Crezi că oi vrea ceva de băut mai târziu?

   Do you think you might want something to drink later?

• oje, oze (Nuorese)
• oe (Logudorese)

From Latin hodiē.

oi

1. (Campidanese) today

• oji
• oggi, uoggi (borrowed from Italian oggi)

From Latin hodie.

oi

1. today

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɔj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɔj˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

oi • (煨)

1. (weather) hot and oppressive, sultry

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái, 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 be full

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (etymologies 2 and 3 as oi)

• ori (Èkìtì)

• IPA^(key): /ō.ī/

oi

1. (Ondo) A type of Yoruba food made from cornflour typically eaten with mọ́ínmọ́ín or àkàrà.

   Synonym: ẹ̀kọ

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

   Inọ́n ùkòkò dínún òun oi fifun tì jáde í. ― It is from inside a black pot that white corn pap comes from. (Oǹdó)

• IPA^(key): /oi̯˧/

oi

1. belly

• gil

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41