What Does Oi Mean?

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What does oi mean?

Definitions for oiɔɪoi

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1. oinoun

   A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.

2. oiinterjection

   Said to get someone's attention.

   Oi, you with the red hat - stop doing that!

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1. oi

   Oi is an informal greeting or expression used to get someone's attention or to call to them.

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1. Oi

   Oi is an interjection used in British English to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval. "Oi" was first documented in the 1930s and is particularly associated with working class and Cockney speech. It is effectively a local pronunciation of "hoy", an older expression. A study of the Cockney dialect in the 1950s found that whether it was being used to call attention or as a challenge depended on its tone and abruptness. The author noted that the expression is "jaunty and self-assertive" as well as "intensely cockney". Any time you're Lambeth way, Any evening, any day, You'll find us all Doin' the Lambeth Walk. Oi! The 1937 musical song The Lambeth Walk from Me and My Girl ends with a cry of "Oi!", expressing defiance and transgression of the working class characters; it was newsworthy when the King and Queen "with the rest of the audience, cocked their thumbs and shouted Oi!" It is used in informal Japanese in the same way as in English, typically by older men to subordinates; an elongated ōi is used when someone is at a distance. A poll of non-English speakers by the British Council in 2004 found that "oi" was considered the 61st most beautiful word in the English language. A spokesman commented that "Oi is not a word that I would've thought turned up in English manuals all that often." "Oi" was added to the list of acceptable words in US Scrabble in 2006.

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1. OI

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Oi is ranked #89403 in terms of the most common surnames in America.The Oi surname appeared 207 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Oi.84% or 174 total occurrences were Asian.8.2% or 17 total occurrences were White.5.8% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'oi' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2210

Anagrams for oi »

1. I/O

2. IO

3. Io

4. io

How to pronounce oi?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of oi in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of oi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oi
2. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
3. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=oi
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Recordshttps://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html

Translations for oi

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• منظمة اوكسفام الدوليةArabic
• oiGerman
• OiSpanish
• oiFrench
• OiHindi
• օիArmenian
• oiIndonesian
• OIItalian
• oiHebrew
• 大井Japanese
• oiKannada
• oiNorwegian
• oiPolish
• oiPortuguese
• О.И.Russian
• OIThai
• О.І.Ukrainian
• اویUrdu
• oiVietnamese
• אָיYiddish
• OIChinese

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