hoy
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Heu or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch gooi.
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, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.
Interjection
hoy
Verb
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed)
- (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying or hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)
References
- “hoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →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
Gutnish
Etymology
From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawją
Noun
hoy n
Derived terms
- hoytjauk (“haystack”)
Scots
Verb
hoy (third-person singular simple present hoy, present participle hoyin, simple past hoyed, past participle hoyed)
- (Southern Scots) to throw
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish oy, from Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodiē. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi, hui in French aujourd’hui
Pronunciation
Adverb
hoy
Synonyms
Derived terms
- a día de hoy
- dejarlo por hoy (“to call it a day”)
- 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
- terminar por hoy (“to call it a day”)
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
Interjection
hoy
- expression used to call the attention of somebody
- Hoy! Gumising na kayong lahat dyan!
- Hey! Wake up all of you there!
- 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.
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