Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of use.
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Examples
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But Miss Parker was not interested in Mam'zelle's "oys".
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He stands to the right of the drummer, plays ferocious rhythm, takes 7 paces up, growls his "oys" or
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"Ticketmaster was the default search engine for events," said Jean-Fran ç oys Brousseau, the founder and CEO of Outbox Technology, who served as Ticketmaster's chief technology officer from 2000 to 2005.
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Even they had trouble seeing what girls do as interesting and importing, noting that “[b] oys tended to have a more participative and a more technically-informed relationship with pop, where girls in contrast became fans and readers of pop-influenced love comics.”
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In fact, according to Lisa Hymas in Grist, "Deciding to be childfree doesn't have to mean forgoing all the joys and oys of parenting."
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"Hello, boys, " Jack said, only he was trying not to move his lips and it came out Hello, oys.
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Priscianus vero dicit quod descendit a Greco ... oys. '
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
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A fine employ it was: chapping at the mans door, and crying boo in his lum, and puttin poother in his fire, and pee-oys1in his window; till the man thocht it was auld Hornie was come seekin him.
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Sony's unnamed system empl-oys detectable wandlike dev-ices, and Microsoft's Proj-ect Natal relies on camera-gesture recognition, which can enable gamers to exert their actual fists in a fighting game, for example.
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Stan gets the lowdown on the joys and oys of fatherhood (mostly oys) from a frazzled playground dad (Anthony Anderson).
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