shoy-hoyn.1
/ˈʃɔɪhɔɪ/ One who scares away birds from a sown field. Also transferred.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > person employed to scare birds
scarecrow1553
shoy-hoy1819
1819 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Aug. 22 These bird-scarers, or, as we call them in Hampshire, Shoy-hoys.
1819 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Aug. 23 Look at the conduct of these shoy-hoys during this present session... The shoy-hoy Chamberlaine from Southampton; the shoy-hoy Palmer,..the two shoy-hoys from Nottingham.
1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 211 Waithman the pride of the senate became Waithman the empty shoyhoy; Hunt the patriot degenerated into Hunt the greatest of liars.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
shoy-hoyn.2
Apparently jocularly used for hoy n.1
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > types of
hulkc1420
wherry1443
hoy1495
wherry-boat1538
boyart1545
hurk1598
bilander1656
galliot-hoy1665
transport-hoy1705
flat-boat1801
shoy-hoy1840
hack boat1863
blood boat1873
blood boat1889
ro-ro1978
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 16 In the old shoy-hoy times I was once at sea three days and two nights between London and Ramsgate, now a certain passage of a few hours.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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