English

Adjective

Yogi ‎(not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of yogi

   In this picture he is performing his famous Yogi trick of swallowing a package of needles and some thread and extracting the needles threaded.‎

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers. One doesn't want aunts going up in a sheet of flame all over the place. She wasn't there, having, I learned later, withdrawn to her room to bathe her temples with eau de Cologne and do Yogi deep-breathing, [...]

Noun

Yogi ‎(plural Yogis)

1. Alternative letter-case form of yogi

   Whoever has not abandoned desire for fruits of action and still have self-centered objectives can never become a Yogi or a practitioner of spiritual communion through work.‎

English

Alternative forms

• ioggue [17th c.], iogue [17th c.], jogue [17th-19th c.], jougie [18th c.], joguey [18th c.], jogee [19th c.], jogi [19th c.], yoguee [19th c.], yogue [19th c.], yogee [19th c.], yogin [from 19th c.]

Noun

yogi ‎(plural yogis)

1. (yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga. [from 17th c.]
   • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 30:

     To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.

   • 2012, Lisa Allardice, The Guardian, 30 Mar 2012:

     There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.

   • Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.
   • It's a yogi trick of some sort.

Related terms

• yogini

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡi/

Noun

yogi m ‎(plural yogis)

1. (yoga) yogi.

Japanese

Romanization

yogi

1. rōmaji reading of よぎ
2. rōmaji reading of ヨギ