hoy
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology 1[edit]
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 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.
- Cowper
- The hoy went to London every week.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:
Etymology 2[edit]
Interjection[edit]
hoy
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)
- (Geordie) To throw.
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 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
Scots[edit]
Verb[edit]
tae hoy (third-person singular simple present hoy, present participle hoyin, simple past hoyed, past participle hoyed)
- (Southern Scots) to throw
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin hodie. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hoy
