joys

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɔɪz/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪz
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

joys

  1. plural of joy

Verb[edit]

joys

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of joy

Yola[edit]

Noun[edit]

joys

  1. plural of joee
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:
      Oore joys all ee-smort ing a emothee knaghane.
      Our joys are all smothered in a pismire-hill.

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 88