hoit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪt

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”).

Verb

hoit

1. (archaic) To play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, “ Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book III, section IV (The Habits of Girls, Virgins, Brides, Wives, and Widows amongst the Jews), paragraph 2, page 535:

     Let none condemn them [girls] for rigs, because thus hoiting with boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime, and few more years will make them blush themselves into better manners.

2. (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
   • 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough

Derived terms

• hoity
• hoity-toity

Etymology 2

Verb

hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoit)

1. Pronunciation spelling of hurt.

Anagrams

• thio-

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Finnish

Verb

hoit

1. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular past indicative of hokea

Anagrams

• hiot, ihot

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian holt, from hal, from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”).

Noun

hoit n (plural hoituri)

1. carrion, carcass
2. corpse

Declension

Declension of hoit

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) hoit	hoitul	(niște) hoituri	hoiturile
genitive/dative	(unui) hoit	hoitului	(unor) hoituri	hoiturilor
vocative	hoitule		hoiturilor

Synonyms

• stârv, mortăciune, leș, corp