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hoy¹

  • /hɔɪ/

Rhymes with -ɔɪ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.

noun hoys

  1. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.

hoy²

  • /hɔɪ/

Rhymes with -ɔɪ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.

interjection hoi

  1. Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!

verb hoys · hoying · hoyed

  1. transitive To incite; to drive onward.

hoy³

  • /hɔɪ/

Rhymes with -ɔɪ

Where it comes from

Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.

verb hoys · hoying · hoyin · hoyed

  1. Australia, Northumbria To throw. They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.

Hoy⁴

Where it comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEochaidh (“descendant of Eochaid”).

proper noun Hoys

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.

Hoy⁵

Where it comes from

From Orkney and Shetland Scots Hoy, from Old Norse há (“high”) + ey (“island”).

proper noun

  1. An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
  2. A small uninhabited island of the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).

HOY⁶

noun HOYs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of head of year.head of year

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