hoy
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.
Noun[edit]
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 Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto X:
- He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.
- Cowper
- The hoy went to London every week.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Dutch gooi, compare ahoy.
Interjection[edit]
hoy
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying or hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)
References[edit]
- 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
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- 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, [3]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Anagrams[edit]
Gutnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawją
Noun[edit]
hoy n
Derived terms[edit]
- hoytjauk (“haystack”)
Scots[edit]
Verb[edit]
hoy (third-person singular present hoy, present participle hoyin, past hoyed, past participle hoyed)
- (Southern Scots) to throw
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Spanish oy, from Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodiē. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi, hui in French aujourd'hui
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hoy
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hoy” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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