oy vey

动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To utter the phrase oy vey. intransitive
    — I suppose that’s not surprising, given the spiritual milieu in which I grew up. My mother gasped in sorrow at any news of a bombing in Israel and appropriately “oy veyed” when a Jew was accused of a crime, but she couldn’t tell you what the Shabbat blessing meant.
感叹词 intj.
  1. oh dear slang
    — Alternatively, some view "oy vey" as being entirely Yiddish (Judeo-German) in origin.

词形变化

oy veys present,singular,third-person oy veying participle,present oy veyed participle,past oy veyed past oy-vey alternative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Yiddish אוי וויי (oy vey, literally “oh woe”), from Middle High German ōwē, from ō + wē, the latter being from Old High German wē, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with German o weh, Dutch oh wee, Latin vae, and Esperanto ho ve.
词源 2
Borrowed from Yiddish אוי וויי (oy vey, literally “oh woe”), from Middle High German ōwē, from ō + wē, the latter being from Old High German wē, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with German o weh, Dutch oh wee, Latin vae, and Esperanto ho ve.
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