omi

See also: Omi, OMI, and ómi

English

Alternative forms

• homee, homie, omee

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian uomo.

Noun

omi (plural omis)

1. (Polari) man, bloke
   • 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:

     Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.

   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a pretty boy then?, page 123:

     Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

Derived terms

• charpering omi, feely-omi, omi-palone, palone-omi

Anagrams

• IMO, IOM, MOI, Mio, imo, mo'i, moi

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -omi

Verb

omi

1. (deprecated template usage) third-person singular past indicative of omia
2. (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of omia
3. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of omia
4. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of omia

Anagrams

• moi

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese homem. Cognates with Kabuverdianu ómi.

Noun

omi

1. man (adult male)

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Japanese

Romanization

omi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おみ

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Venetian

Noun

omi

1. plural of omo

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Volapük

Pronoun

omi

1. (accusative singular of om) him

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Yoruba

Noun

omi

1. water

References

• Dictionary of the Yoruba Language (1913)
• J. S. Olaoye, Principles and Concepts of Yoruba Language (2012)