hoy

See also: Hoy, HOY, and høy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.

Noun

hoy (plural hoys)

1. 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: […] [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.

   • July 1779, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin

     The hoy went to London every week.

Derived terms

• powder hoy

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.

Interjection

hoy

1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

Verb

hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed)

1. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

Etymology 3

Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.

Verb

hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying or hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)

1. (Northumbria, Australia) To throw.

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
• 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

• hyo-

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Gutnish

Etymology

From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawją

Noun

hoy n

1. hay

Derived terms

• hoytjauk (“haystack”)

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Scots

Verb

hoy (third-person singular present hoy, present participle hoyin, past hoyed, past participle hoyed)

1. (South Scots) to throw

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish oy, from Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodiē. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi, hui in French aujourd'hui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoi/, [ˈoi̯]

Adverb

hoy

1. today

   Synonym: hoy día

Derived terms

• dejarlo por hoy (“to call it a day”)
• terminar por hoy (“to call it a day”)
• a día de hoy
• es para hoy
• hoy día
• hoy en día
• hoy por hoy
• hoy por ti, mañana por mí
• pan para hoy, hambre para mañana
• porque hoy es hoy

 

Further reading

• “hoy” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• “hoy” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish oye

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hoj/

Interjection

hoy

1. expression used to call the attention of somebody

   Hoy! Gumising na kayong lahat dyan!

   Hey! Wake up all of you there!

2. expression used to inform someone

   Hoy! Hindi ako ang kumuha ng pera mo!

   Hey! I didn't take your money!

Usage notes

Using this word can make you sound disrespectful in some contexts. Refrain from using it when you're talking to someone who you don't know especially when he's older than you.

Synonyms

• huy
• uy
• oy