different between exy vs oxy

English

Alternative forms

• exxy

Etymology

Shortened from expensive +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ksi

Adjective

exy (comparative more exy, superlative most exy)

1. (Australia, colloquial, slang) Expensive.
   • 2002, Huon Hooke, Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2001-2002, page 111,

     The BRL Hardy people have two ranges of wines bearing the Tintara name, the more exxy one with the name Tintara etched into the glass, and this cheaper line, Tintara Cellars.

Anagrams

• xey, yex

Kwaza

Etymology

With the classifier -xy "skin; leaf" / "house".

Noun

exy

1. paper
2. money
3. hut in the forest in which people stay to ambush game

References

• Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From oxygen. Compare the prefix oxy-.

Noun

oxy (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) The bivalent R-O-R functional group found in ethers.

Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

oxy (countable and uncountable, plural oxies)

1. (informal) Clipping of oxyacetylene, a mixture of oxygen and acetylene used for cutting and welding metals.
2. (countable, uncountable, slang, pharmacology) Clipping of oxycodone, an opioid similar to heroin.
3. (informal) Clipping of oxygen. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Vietnamese

Noun

oxy

1. Alternative spelling of oxi (“oxygen”) (chemical element)