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exclamation hɔɪhɔɪ Used to attract someone's attention. Example sentencesExamples - "Hoy!" shouted Charles, getting out of his seat.
- He spat out the bread and shouted "Hoy! Hoy!" down at the street.
noun hɔɪ mass nounAustralian A game resembling bingo, using playing cards. Example sentencesExamples - Thursday was pension day and a larger than usual number of visitors frequented the Workers Club, playing the pokies or taking part in a game of Hoy.
- Why not bring your friends along to a fun morning playing Hoy and then delicious BBQ lunch?
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. Rhymes ahoy, alloy, Amoy, annoy, boy, buoy, cloy, coy, destroy, employ, enjoy, Hanoi, hoi polloi, Illinois, joy, koi, oi, ploy, poi, Roy, savoy, soy, tatsoi, toy, trompe l'œil, troy noun hɔɪhɔɪ historical A small coastal sailing vessel, typically single-masted. Example sentencesExamples - Sailors of the Hound, blamed by Captain Mustard for running down his timber hoy, admitted that their collier lay so low in the water she could not pass over a shelf in the Thames near Rainham until flood tide.
- The centrepiece of the gallery will be a three-quarter view full-scale model of a transport hoy, a reproduction of the Foreman's Office, and the quayside along which the boat will be moored.
- Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.
- In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, English hoys plied a trade between London and the north Kent coast.
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch hoei, of unknown origin. verb hɔɪhɔɪ [with object]Australian, Northern English informal Throw. Example sentencesExamples - Not wanting anyone to see such a tiddler he hoyed it overboard.
- So he hoyed it in a well. So he threw it down a well.
- If we think there's a possibility that everyone out there would accept it, we take it to a mass meeting which we did the last time and they hoyed it out.
- Simple: take your trainers off, wind your arm up, and get hoying your ‘shoe’ - the pleasing alternative to the game played by all those wizened, pipe-smoking Frenchmen.
- 1970's camping cavers had adopted the Dounreay technique for disposing of their rubbish - they'd hoyed it all down a deep shaft.
Synonyms hurl, smash, crash, slam, throw, toss, fling, pitch, cast, lob, launch, flip, catapult, shy, aim, direct, project, propel, send, bowl
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. exclamationhɔɪhoi Used to attract someone's attention. Example sentencesExamples - "Hoy!" shouted Charles, getting out of his seat.
- He spat out the bread and shouted "Hoy! Hoy!" down at the street.
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English. nounhɔɪhoi historical A small coastal sailing vessel, typically carrying one mast rigged fore-and-aft. Example sentencesExamples - Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.
- In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, English hoys plied a trade between London and the north Kent coast.
- Sailors of the Hound, blamed by Captain Mustard for running down his timber hoy, admitted that their collier lay so low in the water she could not pass over a shelf in the Thames near Rainham until flood tide.
- The centrepiece of the gallery will be a three-quarter view full-scale model of a transport hoy, a reproduction of the Foreman's Office, and the quayside along which the boat will be moored.
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch hoei, of unknown origin. verbhɔɪhoi [with object]Australian, Northern English informal Throw. Example sentencesExamples - Not wanting anyone to see such a tiddler he hoyed it overboard.
- 1970's camping cavers had adopted the Dounreay technique for disposing of their rubbish - they'd hoyed it all down a deep shaft.
- So he hoyed it in a well. So he threw it down a well.
- Simple: take your trainers off, wind your arm up, and get hoying your ‘shoe’ - the pleasing alternative to the game played by all those wizened, pipe-smoking Frenchmen.
- If we think there's a possibility that everyone out there would accept it, we take it to a mass meeting which we did the last time and they hoyed it out.
Synonyms hurl, smash, crash, slam, throw, toss, fling, pitch, cast, lob, launch, flip, catapult, shy, aim, direct, project, propel, send, bowl
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. |