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oy-vey

oy-vey is the alternative form of oy vey.

Meaning of oy vey

Verb

oy vey (third-person singular simple present oy veys, present participle oy veying, simple past and past participle oy veyed)

  1. (intransitive) To utter the phrase oy vey.
    • 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.2019 June 18, Debra Jacobs, “I Didn’t Believe in God. Then I Had Kids.”, in Kveller, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025

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Forms of oy-vey

third-person singular presentoy-veys
present participleoy-veying
past participleoy-veyed
pastoy-veyed

Questions about oy-vey

What is oy-vey the alternative form of?
Oy-vey is the alternative form of oy vey.

Words near oy-vey in the dictionary

  1. oy vay
  2. oy vey
  3. oy veyed
  4. oy veying
  5. oy veys
  6. oy-vey
  7. oy-veyed
  8. oy-veying
  9. oy-veys
  10. Oya Shio
  11. Oya Siwo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oy-vey (page history and authors); oy vey (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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