DIY

English

Etymology

Initialism of do it yourself.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Noun

DIY (usually uncountable, plural DIYs)

1. Initialism of do it yourself.
   • 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man‎^[1]:

     According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.

Translations

do it yourself — see also do it yourself

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: memfarado
• Finnish: TSI (rare; "tee se itse" is more common)
• French: bricolage (fr) m
• German: Heimwerken n, Selbermachen (de) n
• Hungarian: barkácsolás (hu), fúrás-faragás
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сделай сам (sdelaj sam)
• Spanish: hazlo tú mismo, ^{(please verify)} hágalo usted mismo , bricolaje
• Turkish: kendin yap

Verb

DIY (third-person singular simple present DIYs, present participle DIYing or DIY-ing, simple past and past participle DIYed)

1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
   • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,

     Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?

   • 2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained‎^[2], NPR, retrieved 2022-03-21:

     Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.

Derived terms

• DIYer

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: memfari, fari ĝin mem
• Finnish: tehdä (jotain) itse
• French: bricoler (fr)
• German: selber machen (coll.), selbst machen
• Hungarian: barkácsol (hu), fúr-farag (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: majsterkować (pl) impf, pomajsterkować pf
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hazlo tú mismo

Adjective

DIY (comparative more DIY, superlative most DIY)

1. Do-it-yourself.

   Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?

   • 2008, Sami Finne, Hanna Sivonen, chapter 4, in The Retail Value Chain: How to Gain Competitive Advantage through Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Strategies, page 154:

     The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.

   • 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk‎^[3]:

     That is more DIY, more punk, anyway.

   • 2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts Bangkok‎^[4], Bangkok: Coconuts, retrieved 2021-04-20:

     A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.

Translations

of or pertaining to do it yourself

• Danish: gør-det-selv (also a noun)
• Dutch: doe-het-zelf (nl)
• Estonian: tee-ise
• Finnish: tee-se-itse
• Hungarian: barkács- (hu)
• Italian: fai da te
• Russian: своими руками (ru) (svoimi rukami)
• Swedish: gör-det-själv-

Anagrams

• Yid, yid

Chinese

Etymology

From English DIY.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): di¹ aai¹ waai¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: di¹ aai¹ waai¹
    • Yale: dī āai wāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: di¹ aai¹ waai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: di¹ ai¹ wai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiː⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/

Verb

DIY (Taiwanese Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. to DIY; to do it yourself
2. (euphemistic) to masturbate

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 手淫 (“(of a male) to masturbate; to jerk off”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		手淫, 自慰, 自瀆, 自撫, 自淫
Mandarin	Taiwan	打手槍, 打槍, 尻槍, 尻手槍, 尻尻, 尻, 自慰, DIY
	Yantai (Muping)	擼鴨子, 擼管兒
	Liuzhou	打手銃
	Singapore	打手槍, 打飛機
Cantonese	Hong Kong	打飛機, 打J, J, 打丁, 搵五姑娘, DIY
	Singapore (Guangfu)	打飛機
Hakka	Meixian	打手銃
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	打手銃, 打飛機
	Huidong (Daling)	打手銃
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	打水銃
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	摸𡳞
	Changting	打手銃
	Wuping	搞𡳞
	Wuping (Pingyu)	搞𡳞
	Liancheng	打手銃
	Yudu	打手銃
	Ruijin	打手銃
	Shangyou (Shexi)	打手銃
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打手銃
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打手槍
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	打手銃
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	打手銃
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	打手銃
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打手銃, 洩手銃
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打手銃
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打手銃, 洩手銃
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	打手銃, 洩手銃
Jin	Pingyao	耍㞗兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𢫦草屩
Southern Min	Xiamen	拍手銃
	Quanzhou	拍手銃
	Zhangzhou	拍手銃
	Zhao'an	拍手銃
	Taipei (Wanhua)	拍手銃
	Kaohsiung	拍手銃
	Yilan	拍手銃
	Changhua (Lukang)	拍手銃
	Taichung	拍手銃
	Taichung (Wuqi)	拍手銃
	Tainan	拍手銃
	Taitung	拍手銃
	Hsinchu	拍手銃
	Penghu (Magong)	拍手銃
	Penang (Hokkien)	拍手銃
	Singapore (Hokkien)	拍手銃
	Manila (Hokkien)	拍手銃
	Jieyang	敲手銃
	Leizhou	拍手銃
Wu	Shanghai	搓卵 dated
	Ningbo	打手銃
Xiang	Loudi	打手銃

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈije/, [deˈi.je]

Proper noun

DIY

1. Initialism of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta.