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my-my

[mahy-mahy]
–interjection
my (def. 2).

my

[mahy]
–pronoun
1. (a form of the possessive case of I used as an attributive adjective): My soup is cold.
–interjection
2. Also, my-my. (used as an exclamation of mild surprise or dismay): My, what a big house this is! My-my, how old he looks!

Origin:
1125–75; ME mī, var. of mīn, OE mīn; see mine 1


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my 
developed c.1200 as mi, reduced form of mine used before words beginning in consonants except h- (my father, but mine enemy), and before all nouns beginning 14c. As interjection, 18c., probably a shortened form of my God!
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Medical Dictionary

My abbr.
myopia

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