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

• hoy día

Derived terms

• hoy en día
• hoy por hoy