单词 | ahoy |
释义 | ahoyn. A shout or exclamation of ‘ahoy’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > call > specific call oyezc1440 cooee1790 ahoy1815 yo-ho1823 woo-hoo1880 1815 ‘T. Tarpaulin’ Paddy Hew 192 Boatswains and mates, with loud ahoys! Cried bundle! tumble up, my boys!! 1884 H. E. Colville Accursed Land ix. 190 Every now and then..he would give vent to an ‘ahoy’ exactly similar to that used by English sailors. 1918 Haper's Mag. June 42/1 Old Jimmy Garvin..was bombarded with ahoys and avasts and openly accused of being a pirate. 1942 Billboard 15 Aug. 13/3 Show opens with Henry Grant, singer, emseeing and calling for an ‘Ahoy’ from all the mates (patrons). 1988 D. Eddings Demon Lord Karanda (1993) 193 His ‘Ahoys’ and ‘Mateys’ began to get on Balsca's nerves after a while. 2011 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. 8 We had great fun celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day at Kidzworld... Lots of arrghh-haas, mehearties and ahoys were heard throughout the venue. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ahoyint.v. Originally and chiefly Nautical. Now archaic or humorous. A. int. 1. A shout or exclamation used to hail, greet, or attract attention to someone or something, esp. from a distance (originally at sea). Also ahoy there! Cf. hoy int. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [interjection] > hail ahoy1748 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [interjection] > specific call or hail heya1225 halec1300 hillaa1400 what hoc1405 hoc1430 oyeza1450 heh1475 hi?c1475 oy1488 whata1556 holla1598 sola1598 hillo1603 hallow1674 woo-hoo1697 hip1735 yo-ho1748 high1760 yo-heave-ho1790 holla ho!1796 whoo-ee1811 hello1826 tit1827 hullo1857 ahoy1885 yoo-hoo1924 hi-de-hi1941 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxvii. 346 I heard a voice rising, as it were, out of the sea, and calling, ‘Ho, the ship, a hoy!’ 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 11 Ho! the house, a hoy! a1811 R. Cumberland Walloons ii. iv, in Posthumous Dramatick Wks. (1813) I. 108 Ahoy! there! who's without? 1830 J. F. Cooper Water Witch III. ii. 29 Then was heard the usual summons of, ‘all hands up anchor, ahoy!’ 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (1889) 228 As he struck he shouted ‘O-hoy! O-hoy!’ like his Berserkir forefathers. 1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Words xxii. 380 Ahoy there, Jim! Ahoy, Steve! 1999 Independent 6 Nov. (Mag.) 50/2 ‘Ahoy!’ said a jaunty recorded message when I called the company's offices in Miami. 2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) vii. 157 We could see nothing but fog. Captain Kewley even called out, ‘Ahoy there,’ but there came no answer. 2. With preceding noun specifying the thing being hailed or the object of attention. Frequently in land ahoy!, ship ahoy!, and now often in extended jocular use. ΚΠ 1811 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 21 Sept. 37/1 Commodore Rodgers hailed ‘ship ahoy!’ Was answered, ‘halloo.’ 1840 Sailor's Mag. May 272 There is a cry, ‘aloft’, of ‘land ahoy! land ahoy!!’ 1860 All Year Round 8 Sept. 520/2 Chips ahoy! Old boy! 1906 E. H. Crosby Radiana xxiii. 302 ‘Yacht ahoy!’ came hoarsely across the water. 1921 McClure's Mag. Jan. 24 (title) Vampires ahoy! 1981 Guardian 24 Aug. 8 Ah! Scoff ahoy! I spy Florida Cocktail and Gammon Steak Hawaii! 2001 S. Meallet Edgewater Angels (2002) 107 A seriousfaced Richard suddenly seemed like the captain of some ship,..ready to shout out seaman stuff like ‘land ahoy!’, and ‘aye-aye, matey’. 2010 Gaz7etta 3 Nov. 14/2 The new ‘DB’ style is slimmer, and—technical terms ahoy—the ‘crossover bit’ is dynamic and nearer. B. v. intransitive and transitive. To hail by exclaiming ‘ahoy’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > hail ahoy1881 1881 Cent. Mag. 23 54 ‘Schooner ahoy!’ says a voice from the shore, and she ahoys. 1882 All Year Round 23 Mar. 64/2 He ahoyed the crew to bring over the punt, and the crew ahoyed back. 1913 Telephone News 1 Dec. Suppl. 8/2 Plainly as one could wish came Bell's ‘ahoy, ahoy!’ I ahoyed back, and the first long distance telephone conversation began. 2000 P. Beatty Tuff ix. 130 Shirtsleeves flapping in the downtown traffic sirocco, they ahoyed everything from the prostitutes to leashed Pomeranians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1815int.v.1748 |
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