stoitv.
/stɔɪt/ dialect.
1. Scottish.
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a. intransitive. ‘To rebound, bounce’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
b. To move unsteadily, stumble, lurch; to walk with unsteady movements. Also with about, along.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily
wiggle?c1225
walter1399
falterc1400
stammerc1400
dotterc1475
stavera1500
stumblea1500
reel1529
scamblec1571
halper1596
totter1602
folder1607
wamble1611
to make a Virginia fence1671
wandle1686
fribble1709
rock1718
stoit1719
stoiter1724
swagger1724
doddle1761
stotter1781
toit1786
doiter1793
stot1801
dodder1819
twaddle1823
teeter1844
shoggle1884
welter1884
warple1887
whemmel1895
1719 W. Hamilton Epist. to Ramsay ii. 62 Wi' writing I'm sae bliert and doited, That when I raise, in troth I stoited.
1794 R. Burns Contented wi' Little iv Blind Chance, let her snapper and stoyte on her way.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 343 Last day my mind was in a bog, Down George's street I stoited.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 137 I wish ye had seen him stoiting about, aff ae leg on to the other, wi' a kind o' dot-and-go-one sort o' motion.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xii We were stoitin' alang, deeply immersed in oor ain cracks.
2. Of pilchards: to leap above the surface of the water.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > superorder Osteoglossomorpha (bonytongues) > order Clupeiformes [verb (intransitive)] > leap (of pilchards)
stoit1825
1825 Encycl. Londinensis XX. 435/1 They call the jumping of the fish stoiting.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 101 The Herring..rarely springs from the water, or stoits, as it is called.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. xix. 315 The sean-boat is rowed in a circular course round where the fish are stoiting.
Derivatives
stoit n. a lurch. to play stoit, to lurch or stagger.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > lurching > a lurch
swag1660
latcha1687
stoit1808
lurch1819
wallop1820
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > lurch
wrickc1305
swagger1724
ricket1827
lurch1851
stumble1873
to play stoit1881
to play stoiter1890
1808 A. Scott Poems (ed. 2) 164 But fegs, wi' mony a stoit an' stevel, She [sc. a filly] rais'd a trot.
1881 D. Thomson Musings among Heather 118 Rab's road seem'd shorter than 'twas wide, For he play'd stoit frae side to side.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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