euoi

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/juːˈoɪ/

interjection

A cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels.

OriginAncient Greek εὐοῖ →
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Meanings

interjection

alternative evhoe · alternative evoe · alternative evohe

  1. A cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels.

    Shall the warriors of Thebes be dumb? "Euoi! Euoi! Hail Bacchus!" They dance to the pipe and drum.

    1909, Richard Edwin Day, New poems
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    Euoi! Curving vines, delicate tendrils from sinews and tendons. Euoi! Candle flames and sweet smoke sting, swarm with the sound of bees...

    1983, George Hitchcock, Kayak

    The Bacchic cry of Euoi is not too dissimilar to Jesus' penultimate cry, while on the cross, of Eloi, Eloi.

    2001, Ralph Ellis, K2: Quest of the Gods

    […] sexually aroused by them but never successful in their urge to debauch them. The maenads, Diodoros continues, cry out 'euoi' […]

    2003, Matthew Dillon, Girls and women in classical Greek religion

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekεὐοῖ
  2. Englisheuoi

From Ancient Greek εὐοῖ (euoî).

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