English

Noun

hoik ‎(plural hoiks)

1. (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style
2. (New Zealand) spittle.

Verb

hoik ‎(third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)

1. To play such a shot.
2. To lift something up wildly.
3. To throw something out.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”

4. (New Zealand) to spit.

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish hoikka.

Adjective

hoik

1. thin
2. slim, slender
3. high (of the voice)

Inflection

Derived terms

• hoiketa

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “слабый, тонкий”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika