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▪ I. † hoit, v. Obs. or dial.
Also hoyt.
[Origin obscure: senses 1 and 2 are perh. unconnected. There seems to be connexion or association of sense with hoyden: see esp. hoiting ppl. a.]
1. intr. ‘To indulge in riotous and noisy mirth’ (Nares); to act the hoyden, to romp inelegantly.
c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. ii. i. (1881) 27 There you'll be hoyting and kissing the wenches you. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burn. Pest. i. iii, Hark my Husband he's singing and hoiting. Ibid. iv. iii, There he..sings, and hoyts, and revels among his drunken companions. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. iv. vi. 110 Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, because thus hoiting with boys. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Hoit, to play the fool..to engage in some evident absurdity.
2. To move clumsily and with difficulty; to limp. Sc.
1786Burns To Auld Mare vii, Tho' now ye dow but hoyte and hoble An' wintle like a saumont-coble.
Hence (in sense 1) hoiting vbl. n. and ppl. a. [with the latter, cf. hoyden a.]. Also hoit n., north. dial., a spoilt child, a simpleton, an awkward silly girl, a hoyden.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 87 Then would [I] hoyting wanton to a tribe Of loues my body haue abandoned. 1601Donne Progr. Soul xlvii, Us'd to wooe With hoiting gambols..To make his Mistriss merry. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger (N.), The court is not..a market-place for boyes, hoytings, and knaveries. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. iii. Dram. Wks. 1873 III. 141 Young enough, But given too much to hoyting, and to barley-break. 1676Lady A. Fanshawe in Mem. (1829) 33, I was that which we graver people call a hoyting girl. 1687A. Behn Lucky Chance ii. ii, One of those hoiting Ladies that love nothing like fool and fiddle.
▪ II. hoit
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