"Oy vey" (Yidish: אױ װײ) (or just "oy") is an exclamation of dismay or exasperation (Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English) meaning "Oh, woe" or "Oh, no". The term was borrowed from Yiddish, and is often described as "defying translation" or being an "untranslatable expression" but which is translated by Random House Unabridged Dictionary as being "used to express dismay, pain, annoyance, grief, etc." and the Oxford English dictionary describes it as an "exclamation used by Yiddish-speakers to express dismay or grief". In 2001, California State Assembly Speaker, Robert Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), compiled a 31 page Yiddish dictionary for his colleagues and of the word "oy vey" he defined it as "an untranslatable expression used for a variety of negative feelings." This interjection is first noted in English between 1890–95.