oy-vey

See also: oy vey

English

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of oy vey.
    • 2017 March 1, Pamela J Dowell, “Rabbi Ron Grossman: We are one or we are none”, in Grand Rapids Herald Review‎[1], archived from the original on 14 June 2017:
      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.
    • 2021 July 3, Steven Goldleaf, “Fired, Not Cancelled”, in Steven on Authory‎[2], archived from the original on 30 November 2022:
      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.
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