omi

O1M3I1

noun

A man.

Less commonScrabble 5

Meanings

omi1

nounomi (plural omis)

plural omis · alternative homee · alternative homie · alternative omee

  1. PolariA 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
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    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, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

    1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123

OMI2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéǵʰōm
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰmṓ
  4. Proto-Italic*hemō
  5. Latinhemō
  6. Latinhomō
  7. Italianuomo
  8. Englishomi

Probably borrowed from Italian uomo (“man”). Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and ombre.

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Chicago

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