omi
omi noun: a man.
Noun
omi (plural omis)
- A man.
- 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.1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12
- 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...1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123
Proper noun capitalized: OMI
OMI
- Initialism of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Forms of omi
| plural | omis |
|---|---|
| alternative form | homee |
| alternative form | homie |
| alternative form | omee |
Origin of omi
Probably borrowed from Italian uomo (“man”). Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and ombre.
Words formed from omi
Questions about omi
- What does omi mean?
- Omi means a man.
- What part of speech is omi?
- Omi can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of omi?
- The plural of omi is omis.
Words near omi in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: omi (page history and authors); OMI (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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