Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Yiddish exclamation of dismay, 1892, American English. Extended form oy vey (1959) includes Yiddish vey, from German Weh "woe" (see woe).
Wiktionary
interj. An exclamation typically expressing mild frustration or expressing feelings of uncertainty or concern.
Wikipedia
Oy or OY may refer to:
- Oy, a Yiddish exclamation of chagrin, dismay, exasperation or pain, commonly used in the phrase oy vey
- Oy, a village in the Oy-Mittelberg municipality, Bavaria, Germany
- oy, a digraph found in many languages
- Oy, an abbreviation of Osakeyhtiö, a prefix/postfix indicating a Finnish Limited company
- Oy, an animal character in Stephen King's Dark Tower series
- Omni Air International (IATA airline designator)
- "OY" (Oscar, Yankee), the aircraft registration code prefix for airplanes from Denmark
- Oy (album), a studio album of Iranian singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo
- Oy, the code for County Offaly, Ireland
- OY-(three digit number), a code for flights with the former Danish airline company Conair of Scandinavia (1964–1994)
- Oy, alternative spelling of " oi", a British slang interjection used to get someone's attention
- Oy, Russia, a selo in Khangalassky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
Oy is the third studio album by the Iranian singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo after Toranj and Jabr-e Joghrafiyaei. Released on 6 October 2009 this was Namjoo's first album produced and published outside Iran.
This also was the first collaboration between Namjoo and Golshifteh Farahani in which Golshifteh plays piano and also sings in some parts. In addition to drums, piano and accordion other Iranian musical instruments including setar and Tonbak are played within the album.
Two Concerts were held in Italy, one in Venice on September 11 and the other in Milan on October 8 and songs of Oy album were performed with Italian instrumentalists and Golshifteh Farahani playing the piano. Both concerts were free of charge and served as a promotion for the album.
Usage examples of "oy".
El ciego del violín le sabía sacar unas habaneras de las que ya no se oyen.
McQueen, sitting in his dingy Bangor oce running a hoe-and-comer business as a demoition contractor with assets consisting of a battered truck and a ton of second-hand sedgehammers, considered himself a self-made man and heartily ap proved of the Ulster Protestant work ethic.
She is a lady who frequents diplomatic and Foreign Oce circles as much as possible.
Instead he raised you among his own sons, the sweet oys you have butchered, and to my undying shame I trained you in the arts of war.
Why, oy, I reckon you would have to calculate the number of grains of sand on this beach and on every star in the sky, in every one of the ten thousand great chilicosms, which would be a number of sand grains uncomputable by IBM and Burroughs too, why boy I don't rightly know" (swig of wine) "I don't rightly know but it must be a couple umpteen trillion sextillion infideled and busted up innumerable number of roses that sweet Saint Teresa and that fine little old man are now this minute showering on your head, with lilies.