omi
SayOH-meeUS/ˈoʊmi/UK/ˈəʊmi/
Pluralomis
- 1A man.
"Vada the bona omi in the corner," he murmured, nodding toward the stranger at the bar.
"Who's the omi moving in next door?" he asked, peering through the curtains.
Note
Polari probably took it from Italian uomo, "man", which makes it a doublet of hombre, homo and ombre. It takes an ordinary English plural and English adjectives around it: Round the Horne in 1967 could set great butch omis beside dolly little palones, the women of the same vocabulary.
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Origin
Probably borrowed from Italian uomo ("man"). It is a doublet of gome, hombre, homo and ombre.