Oy Definition

oi
interjection
Used to express surprise, pain, grief, worry, etc.
Webster's New World

An exclamation typically expressing mild frustration or expressing feelings of uncertainty or concern.

Wiktionary

Origin of Oy

  • Yiddish אוי (oy, “oh, oy”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Yiddish

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Oy Sentence Examples

  • Oy. I have the feeling owing you is not a good thing.

  • The force X1 in KH with X1 in Ox forms a couple about Oy, of moment z1Xi.

  • Take, for example, the case of a sphere rolling on a plane; and let the axes Ox, Oy be drawn through the centre parallel to the plane, so that the equation of the latter is 1=cf.

  • In the critical case of 2BT= I it breaks up into two planes through the axis of mean moment (Oy).

  • The moving axes Ox, Oy, 01 form a rigid frame of reference whose motion at time t may be specified by the three component angular velocities p, q, r.

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