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English

Interjection

euoi

• 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.¹
  • ✤ * Euoi! Curving vines, delicate tendrils from sinews and tendons. Euoi! Candle flames and sweet smoke sting, swarm with the sound of bees…*²
  • ✤ The Bacchic cry of Euoi is not too dissimilar to Jesus’ penultimate cry, while on the cross, of Eloi, Eloi.³
  • ✤ […] sexually aroused by them but never successful in their urge to debauch them. The maenads, Diodoros continues, cry out ‘euoi’ […]⁴

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐοῖ (euoî).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /juːˈoɪ/
• Rhymes: -oɪ

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Footnotes

1. 1909, Richard Edwin Day, New poems: ↩

2. 1983, George Hitchcock, Kayak: ↩

3. 2001, Ralph Ellis, K2: Quest of the Gods: ↩

4. 2003, Matthew Dillon, Girls and women in classical Greek religion: ↩