Oi Definition

oi
interjection
Used as a greeting or to attract someone's attention.
American Heritage

Oy.

Webster's New World
Oi, an alternative spelling for oy or oy vay, is defined as a Yiddish expression used to express frustration, pain or worry.
An example of oi used as an interjection is in the following sentences: "Oi! I forgot my wallet at home!" which means "Oh no! I forgot my wallet at home!"
YourDictionary
pronoun

(south west England) Eye dialect spelling of I.

Wiktionary
suffix
Plural form of -os.
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Origin of Oi

  • From the Ancient Greek -οι (-oi), the second-declension masculine nominative plural case ending — the plural form of -ος (-os); compare the equivalents of the Latin second declension (-us → -ī), with which the Grecian case endings are usually substituted in English words, especially in the plural.

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Oi Sentence Examples

  • At Naples a trifling disturbance in September 1849, led to the lion oi arrest of a large number of persons connected with the Liberals Unitd Italiana, a society somewhat similar to the in Naples.

  • The vowel sounds ai, oi, ui have become e, o, u; and a, o, u before the finals d and n are now et, o, ii.

  • Her utterances were reduced to verse and edited by the prophets and the "holy men" (& oi.).

  • Oi, 1045 b 27-32, referring back to Z 1, or at the earliest to P 2.

  • It is probable also that the " extraneous discourses " (Oi i wTEpLKoi Aoyoc) sometimes mentioned in them here mean dialectical discussions of a subject from opinions extraneous to its nature, as opposed to scientific deduction from its appropriate principles.

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