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, usually impolite)

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

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

   Oi! Stop that!

2. An expression of surprise.

   Oi! This is new!

3. An informal greeting, similar to hi.

   Oi! How's it going?

• (to get attention): hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
• (expression of surprise): blimey, whoa; see also Thesaurus:wow
• (informal greeting): wotcher, yo

• 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.

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

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

From Latin odium. Doublet of odi.

oi m (plural ois)

1. (Mallorca) aversion, revulsion

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
3. Indicates surprise: whoa; hey
4. Indicates physical pain: ouch

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

• 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)

• -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

• hoi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huy (“exclamation to express surprise, call to a friend, respond to a distant call, etc.”). Compare Cantonese 喂 (wai²) or Min Nan 喂 (oeh).

• IPA^(key): /oi̯/
• Rhymes: -oi̯

oi (Jawi spelling وي‎)

1. hey; interjection used to call out to people

   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.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

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

• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: oi

oi

1. 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˧˧]

oi • (煨)

1. hot and oppressive, sultry

(classifier cái) oi

1. 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