doy
/dɔɪ/
doy interjection: disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
Interjection
- Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
- —Wow, he looks pretty angry. —Doy!
- Uh, doy!2015 March 6, “Kimmy Has a Birthday!”, in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper)
- Synonyms:
- obviously, duh, no duh, no shit, no shit, Sherlock, you don't say, no kidding
Noun
doy (plural doys)
- A term of address to a young child.
- Whear is thi' Daddy doy? Whear is thi' mam? / What are ta cryin for, poor little lamb?1872, John Hartley, “A Hawpoth”, in Yorkshire Ditties: Second Series, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: William Nicholson & Sons, page 112
- […] an' then as aw caught seet o'th' three little doys 'at wor crooidled up i'th' winder corner, tryin' to keep warm, ther little nooases lukkin like three half-ripe cherries wi' a drop o' dew glistenin' on 'em, aw thowt, better net just yet for their sake.1886, “Sweep! oh! Sweep!”, in Yorkshire Tales: First Series, London: W. Nicholson and Sons, page 30
Proper noun capitalized: Doy
Doy
- A surname.
Synonyms of doy
Forms of doy
| plural | doys |
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Origin of doy
Unknown. Possibly related to doylem (“a stupid person; an idiot”).
Possibly an alteration of joy.
Phrases with doy
Words that rhyme with doy
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- cloy
- convoy
- deploy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- foy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- soy
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- noy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about doy
- What does doy mean?
- Doy means disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
- What part of speech is doy?
- Doy can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce doy?
- Doy is pronounced /dɔɪ/.
Words near doy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doy (page history and authors); Doy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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