O

A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

Adjective abbreviation, alt of

  1. Abbreviation of morally offensive, film classification of the National Legion of Decency.
  2. Abbreviation of Orthodox.

Origin

Abbreviation.

Adjective Singapore, colloquial

  1. or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and no condensed milk added.
    • Better try their kopi-o tarik. Our version nowadays taste like cough medicine. LOL! - 2003, Ixus, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

Origin

From Hokkien 烏 /乌 (o͘, “black”) or Teochew 烏 /乌 (ou¹, “black”).

Related

C di lo gah dai gau kosong peng po siew dai exie-osies NOx O-ring OSETI

Derived

kopi o teh o

Character

  1. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
    • "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.) - 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972,...

Forms

o Os O's

Proper noun Entry 4

  1. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
  2. Alternative form of E (Ancient Chinese Kingdom)
    • ACCORDING to various inscriptions about this famous temple we are told that it was erected to the memory of Ya Fei, "An Unswerving Guardian to the Heir-Apparent," of the Sung dynasty; "A Loyal-to-the-end Minister," who...
    • In ancient times Wuchang was the capital city of the Kingdom of O. In Manchu times it was the residence of the Viceroy of the two provinces of Hupeh and Hunan. Since then its fortunes have changed with changing...
    • ⁶There are actually several geographical identifications proposed for the State of O: Wu-ch'ang in Hupei, Huai-ch'ing in Honan, and Fu-fang, Shensi (in the south-east thereof). As two inscriptions connected with the...

Origin

From Mandarin 鄂 (È) Wade–Giles romanization: O⁴.

Forms

E

Related

O-ch'eng O-chou

Proper noun Entry 5

  1. A surname from Korean.

Origin

Korean 오(伍) (O) or 오(吳) (O). Doublet of Wu.

Forms

Oh Oe Au

Noun media, printing

  1. American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).
  2. Someone associated with Leyton Orient Football Club, as a player, coach, supporter etc.
  3. The number of overs bowled.
  4. Orgasm.
    • Sunny felt some cold and wet press against her pussy, it startled her, then it's^([sic]) tongue went deep inside of her, she had been eaten out before, but never this could, who ever was doing it was a real pro, and had...
    • Further on, when she's about to reach her first O, the taste turns from no taste to champagne-like. - 1999 March 31, JT aka GF, “Re: mary p., hex and going "downtown"”, in alt.psst.hoy (Usenet), retrieved 22 Nov 2014:
    • She thought you could get pregnant from tonguing when kissing; about her first O and how it scared her; how she looked in the mirror afterwards to see if she had changed; about how scared she was when it came time to...

    Synonyms: big O

  5. Opium.
    • We lay on our stomachs on the living-room floor in a circle around our host, a skinny little man who said he'd been smoking O for 20 years. - 1952, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 22:

Forms

Os

Noun Entry 7

  1. Something shaped like the letter O.
    • She was lying in the lee of a fowlhouse in a crumpled posture, as if cohesion had been detached from her joints, which lobbed her in an untidy heap, like a lot of old bones, tied together with string. Her skull was...
  2. A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.

Forms

Os O's

Noun Entry 8

  1. An utterance of the vocative O.

Origin

From Middle English O, o, from Old English o, from Latin o and Ancient Greek ὦ (ô, interjection). Featured prominently in William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament.

Forms

Oes o ô

Related

ēalā, ǣlā, hēlā la lo oh

Numeral

  1. The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Forms

o Os O's

Particle

  1. The vocative particle, used for direct address.
    • O Death! O Death! Won't you spare me over till another year? - part of the refrain from the American folk song "A Conversation with Death".
    • Therfore arte thou inexcuſable o man whoſoever thou be that iudgeſt. For in that ſame where in thou iudgeſt another / thou cõdemneſt thy ſilfe. For thou that iudgeſt doest evẽ the ſame ſilfe thynges. […] Thynkeſt thou O...
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Macbeth O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]

Forms

o ô

Derived

O Antiphon O Canada