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onie

/ ˈəʊnɪ /

determiner

  1. a variant spelling of ony
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Onie Patrick, 37, works 12 to 28 hours a week as a part-time cashier at Aldi in Rockford, Ill. She has four children, who are in eighth grade, kindergarten and preschool this year.

“When I joined, I started hearing people saying the exact same thing we were,” said Onie Patrick, who was laid off from Kmart after nine years.

But Onie Patrick, who worked at a Kmart in northern Illinois for nine years before it closed in September, said the impact of the retail giant’s vanishing would expand far beyond just financial damage.

“I was lost, going from house to house,” recalled Onie Hayslett, 22, who was homeless and pregnant when she first met Ms. Pletz two years ago.

"We keep trying to reinvent the wheel," Ms. Onie observed.

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