oy-vey

present singular third person oy-veys · participle present oy-veying · participle past oy-veyed · past oy-veyed

1. alternativeAlternative form of oy vey.

   They oy-veyed Ron’s [then] Baptist faith, almost as if knowing the more he tended to them, the more he would step out the shadows of a past many dared not reveal.

   2017 March 1, Pamela J Dowell, “Rabbi Ron Grossman: We are one or we are none”, in Grand Rapids Herald Review, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2017

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   For decades, Bill has inveighed against the indignity of being copy-edited, and I’ve oy-veyed against his ignorant and arrogant position that he and he alone can be the final arbiter of standards of the English language regarding how his words appear in print: any editor who imposes, say, the correct spelling of “affect” or “effect” is, according to Bill, a phony authority relying solely on some imaginary BS convention that he is free to disregard with scorn.

   2021 July 3, Steven Goldleaf, “Fired, Not Cancelled”, in Steven on Authory, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022