| 释义 |
yoicks, int.|jɔɪks|
Also 8–9 yoics, 9 yoix, yooicks.
[Cf. yoaks, yoi, and hoicks, earlier hoik (1607), hoic, which is used similarly to, and appears to be a variant of, hike, hyke, as in hike hallow, hyke a Bewmont (see Turbervile Hunting 31, 112, 175).]
A call used in fox-hunting to urge on the hounds; also occas. gen. as an exclamation of excitement or exultation.
1774Westm. Mag. II. 657 The bold Fox-hunter, just come up to town, From ‘Yoicks, hark forward’, loves to seem a clown. 1777T. Swift Gamblers 54 ‘Hark forward! Yoics!’ with rough delight he hears. c1800Armiger's Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet (1830) 112 Old Juno, young Scentwell, bold Jowler, and Tray, Yoix! yoix! have compelled him to yield. 1831–4R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts i. (1838) 11 The wood begins to resound with shouts of ‘Yoicks True-bo-y, yoicks True-bo-y, yoicks push him up, yoicks wind him!’ 1858in Morn. Chron. 5 Nov. 7/1 The energetic ‘view-holloa’, and the hearty cheerful ‘yoicks⁓tally ho’. 1875F. T. Buckland Log-Bk. 3 Yoicks! tear him, my beauties! 1884Blackw. Mag. May 642/1 With renewed spirits he jumped into a hansom, and gave the direction―..‘Yoicks!’ cried he to himself, ‘I'm going it!’
Hence yoicks (also yoick) v., intr. to cry ‘yoicks!’; trans. to urge on by crying ‘yoicks!’
1847R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Gr. xiv, The swell huntsman yoicked his hounds into cover. 1854― Handley Cr. xlvii. (1901) II. 63 The hounds dashed into cover, and master and man proceeded to ‘yoicks’ and crack their whips. |