oi
Intj
- Said to get someone's attention; hey.
- An expression of surprise.
- An informal greeting, similar to hi.
- Alternative spelling of oy.
- Alternative spelling of oy.
Noun
- A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
Pron
- I.
Examples
- Oi! How's it going?
- Oi! Stop that!
- Oi! This is new!
- Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing?
- Sometimes oi sits and thinks, and sometimes oi just sits.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Synonyms
'sblood, 'sdeath, 'sheart, 'struth, Christ, Christ alive, Christ almighty, Christ on a bike, Christ on a cracker, Christ on a raft, Gadsbodikins, God Almighty, God in heaven, God's teeth, Gordon Bennett, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, I never, I say, I'll be, I'll be a dirty bird!, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'll be a son of a gun, I'll be blowed, I'll be bound, I'll be buggered, I'll be damned, I'll be danged, I'll be darned, I'll be dashed, I'll be dipped, I'll be dipped in shit, I'll be hanged, I'll be hornswoggled, I'll be jiggered, I'll be shot, I'm blowed, Janey Mack, Jaysus, Jeebus, Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus H. Christ, Jesus Murphy, Jesus fucking Christ, Jiminy Cricket, Judas Priest, Lord, Lord be praised, Lord love a duck, Mary and Joseph, Mother of God, O gemini, OMG, ZOMFG, ZOMG, adzooks, ahem, ahoy, ay, begorra, bleeding Nora, bleeding heck, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige, blimey, bloody Nora, bloody hell, blow me, blow me backwards, blow me down, blow me over, blow me pink, blow me tight, blow me up, blow my buttons, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, by Allah, by George, by God, by Jove, by Jupiter, by all that is holy, by cracky, by golly, by gum, by gummy, by jingo, by juckies, by the living jingo, by thunder, byrlady, caramba, chihuahua, chuffing hell, cooee, cor, cor blimey, cor lummy, cowabunga, crikey, criminy, cripes, crivvens, dear God, dear Lord, dear me, dearie me, deary me, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora, flipping Nora, flipping heck, fuark, fuck me, fucking Nora, fucking hell, gad so, gadsbud, gadzooks, gaw, gee, gee whiz, gee willikers, geeminy, geez, geez Louise, geshmak, get out of town, glory be, golly, golly gee willikers, golly gosh, good God, good Lord, good golly, good gracious, good gravy, good grief, good heavens, goodness, goodness gracious, goodness gracious me, goodness me, googly-moogly, gorblimey, gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great Scott, great balls of fire, great googly moogly, gyatt, hallo, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hello, hey, heyday, heyo, hoi, hold up, holy Hannah, holy Moses, holy Toledo, holy buckets, holy cannoli, holy cow, holy crap, holy crap on a cracker, holy cricket, holy crickets, holy crud, holy dignity, holy doodle, holy fuck, holy fuck knuckles, holy guacamole, holy hell, holy kamoley, holy kamoly, holy macaroni, holy mackerel, holy magnum, holy man, holy moley, holy moly, holy ravioli, holy shit, holy smoke, holy stromboli, hoo man, hooly dooly, hot damn, imagine that, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps, jings, jinkies, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, knock me down with a feather, knock me over with a feather, land sakes, lauks, lawks, lawks a-mercy, lawl, leapin' lizards, lordy, mama mia, mamma mia, man alive, mercy sakes, my, my God, my Lord, my conscience, my giddy aunt, my goodness, my gosh, my heavens, my my, my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle, my word, no way, ods bodikin, odsfish, odzookens, oh, oh em gee, oh my, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my Lord, oh my days, oh my fuck, oh my goodness, oh my goodness gracious, oh my gosh, oh my heck, oh my hell, oh my life, oh my stars, oh my word, ohmigod, oi, oi oi, omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah, ruddy Nora, ruddy hell, sacré bleu, sakes alive, shart, sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora, shiver my timbers, shut my mouth, shut the front door, slap my ass and call me Judy, slap my ass and call me Sally, snakes alive, sodding hell, son of a gun, stone me, stone the crows, strewth, strike me pink, suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet Mary, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, waow, well, what, what do you know, whoa, whoah, wotcher, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, yo, yoohoo, you don't say, yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, zooterkins, zound, zounds, zowie
Scrabble Score: 2
oi: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoi: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
oi: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary