hoy
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology 1
From Dutch heu, or Flemish hui.
[edit] Noun
hoy (plural hoys)
- A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:
- He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:
[edit] Etymology 2
[edit] Interjection
hoy
[edit] Etymology 3
[edit] Verb
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)
- (Geordie) To throw.
[edit] References
- hoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
- The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893-4[3]
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [4]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
[edit] Scots
[edit] Verb
tae hoy (third-person singular simple present hoy, present participle hoyin, simple past hoyed, past participle hoyed)
- (Southern Scots) to throw
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Etymology
From Latin hodie. Compare Portuguese hoje.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /oj/
[edit] Adverb
hoy
