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Webster 1913 Edition


Hoy

Hoy

,
Noun.
[D.
heu
, or Flem.
hui
.]
(Naut.)
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
The
hoy
went to London every week.
Cowper.

Hoy

,
int
erj.
[D.
hui
. Cf.
Ahoy
.]
Ho! Halloe! Stop!

Webster 1828 Edition


Hoy

HOY

,
Noun.
A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in conveying passengers and goods from place to place on the sea coast, or in transporting goods to and from a ship in a road or bay.

HOY

, an exclamation, of no definite meaning.

Definition 2024


hoy

hoy

See also: Hoy and høy

English

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 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.

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dutch gooi, compare ahoy.

Interjection

hoy

  1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

Etymology 3

Verb

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

  1. (Geordie) To throw.

References

  • hoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • 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,
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165

Scots

Verb

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

  1. (Southern Scots) to throw

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hodie. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oj/

Adverb

hoy

  1. today

Synonyms

Derived terms