different between poz vs poi

English

Etymology

Clipping of positive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?z/
• Rhymes: -?z
• Homophones: pause (in accents with the cot-caught merger), paws (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

poz (not comparable)

1. (slang) HIV positive.

   Synonym: pozzed

   Antonym: neg

Verb

poz (third-person singular simple present pozzes, present participle pozzing, simple past and past participle pozzed)

1. (slang, transitive) To infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted disease.
2. (slang, transitive, nonstandard) To say something positive to someone about themselves.

   Synonym: compliment

Related terms

• pozzed

Breton

Noun

poz

1. Hard mutation of boz.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pozdrav

Interjection

p?z (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)
2. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)

Synonyms

• pozdrav

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /p??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian poi.

Noun

poi (uncountable)

1. (Hawaii) The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment. [from 18th c.]
2. A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori poi.

Noun

poi (plural poi or pois)

1. (New Zealand) A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string; also, a traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball. [from 19th c.]

Further reading

• poi (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• poi (performance art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IOP, IPO, OPI, PIO, Pio

Hawaiian

Noun

poi

1. Traditional staple food of Hawai?i. A porridge-like substance made from cooked and ground taro corm mixed with water.

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pos, from Classical Latin post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i/
• Rhymes: -?i

Adverb

poi

1. then
2. later

Derived terms

• poiché

Related terms

• dopo

Noun

il poi m (invariable)

1. the future

References

Anagrams

• pio, Pio

Japanese

Romanization

poi

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ??? (pwai:).

Noun

poi

1. feast, festival

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?^[1], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Old French

Etymology

From Latin paucus.

Adjective

poi m or f (invariable)

1. few; little

Adverb

poi

1. little; not much

Pronoun

poi

1. few; not many (people, objects etc.)

Descendants

• French: peu

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.i/

Verb

poi

1. third-person singular present of poi?

Romanian

Adverb

poi

1. Alternative form of apoi

Samoan

Noun

poi

1. Samoan poi

Sukurum

Noun

poi

1. water

References

• Susanne Holzknecht, The Markham languages of Papua New Guinea (1989), page 71