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▪ I. hoy, n.1|hɔɪ|
Also 6–7 hoie, hoye, 7 hoigh, huy.
[app. ad. MDu. hoei, pl. hoeyen (Verwijs and Verdam), var. of hoede, heude, huede, mod.Du. † heude, heu, whence also obs. F. heu (Jal). Ulterior origin unknown.]
‘A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and goods, particularly in short distances on the sea-coast’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
1495Paston Lett. No. 937 III. 388 An hoye of Dorderyght. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 95 An hoy of Andwarpe. 1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §9 English Hoys and Plats may cross the Seas as far as Caen. 1605B. Jonson Volpone iv. i, Your Hoigh Carries but three men in her, and a boy. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 228 Holland and Zeland..hath..twenty thousand saile of Ships and Hoies. 1661Pepys Diary 16 June, To hire a Margate Hoy. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. lii. 429 Crears..Huys, Catches, Capers, and other Vessels. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 227 Hoys and Lighters are vessels with one mast, and sometimes a bowsprit; abaft the mast is a gaff-mainsail, before it a fore⁓sail, and a jib upon the bowsprit. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xviii. xxiii. 173 A coach as long and as crowded as the Margate Hoy. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., In the naval service there are gun-hoy, powder-hoy, provision-hoy, anchor-hoy, all rigged sloop-fashion.
†b. jocularly. A heavy or clumsy person. Obs.
1607Dekker & Webster North-w. Hoe ii. i, I heare trampling: 'tis my Flemish Hoy.
c. Comb. (See also hoyman.)
1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 358 A whole Hoy-full are Landed. a1618Raleigh Observ. in Rem. (1661) 167 They [the Dutch] have..Ships called Boyers, Hoybarks, Hoyes, and others. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 321 Low conversation in hoy-boats and stage⁓coaches. 1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 48 A Hoy Load of..Flags was sent.
▪ II. hoy, int. (n.2)|hɔɪ|
Also 6 hoyghe, 7– hoi, 8– hoay.
[A natural exclamation.]
A. int. A cry used to call attention; also to incite or drive beasts, esp. hogs. In nautical language (also written hoay) used in hailing or calling aloft. (Cf. ahoy.)
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 123 And holpen to erie þis half acre with ‘hoy! troly! lolly’ [A. vii. 109 Hey! trolly-lolly! B. vi. 118 how! trolli-lolli!]. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 176 Wordes..derived from the nature of thynges. As..when one would seme galant, to crie hoigh, whereby also is declared courage. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 121 Hoy, hurson, to hell. 1617Minsheu Ductor, Hoi, a word vsed in driuing hogges. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy ii. ii. Wks. (1648) 721 Away nasty C. E. transformed by Circe! Hoy! back to her Styes, yea thine! 1769Falconer Dict. Marine s.v. Holloa, If the master intends to give any order to the people in the main-top, he calls, Main-top, hoay! To which they answer, Holloa! 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 213 He hallooed, hoy, stop! 1862Totten Naval Text Bk. (N.Y.) 340 Hoay, an exclamation, to call attention, as ‘Ship-hoay!’
B. as n.
1. A call of ‘hoy!’
1641Brome Joviall Crew iv. ii, Here's a Wedding with a witnesse, and a Holy-day with a hoigh. 1850W. Jamie Stray Effus. 76 The fisher's ‘Hoy’ was heard afar. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. viii, I see your young man..chopping at the flies on the window-sill..and I give him a Hoy!
2. Austral. A gambling game, resembling lotto, in which playing-cards are used. Also attrib.
1965Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Mar. 15 A hoy evening which the Royal Society of St. George planned to hold at St. George House. 1969Ibid. 25 Feb. 6/10 Juliet Jones couldn't object to a few games of hoy. 1969Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Aug. 3/3 Police said that bingo, or hoy, which was played in the same way, was illegal in Queensland. 1971Tel. (Brisbane) 3 Nov. 4/2, I have been advised that the radio competition is above board, but have had no ruling on the game hoy.
▪ III. hoy, v.
[f. hoy int.]
1. trans. To urge on or incite with cries of ‘hoy!’; to drive or convoy with shouts.
c1536Lyndesay Compl. Bagsche 144, I gat none vther recompence Bot hoyit, & houndit of the toun. 1573Tusser Husb. lvii. (1878) 130 Hoy out (sir carter) the hog fro thy wheele. c1590D. Moysie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1830) 37 He wes oppinlie onbeset by..rascalis of the toun, and howeid out of the toun by flinging of stones at him. a1605Montgomerie Dev. Poems vi. 70 The hevy saulis ar had to hevin; The light, alace, ar hoyde to hell. 1785Burns Halloween xxiii, They hoy't out Will, wi' sair advice.
2. intr. To call ‘hoy!’
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Mr. Watkins Iottle ii, Quite hoarse with hoi-ing and imprecating.
▪ IV. hoy
obs. form of hue. |