hoy

• IPA^(key): /hɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.

hoy (plural hoys)

1. (nautical) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.

   • July 1779, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin

     The hoy went to London every week.

• powder hoy

Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.

hoy

1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

• ahoy-hoy

hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying, simple past and past participle hoyed)

1. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.

hoy (third-person singular simple present hoys, present participle hoying or hoyin, simple past and past participle hoyed)

1. (Northumbria, Australia) To throw.

• hoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

• hyo-

From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawją.

hoy n

1. hay

• hoytjauk (“haystack”)

Unadapted borrowing from English hoy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔj/
• Rhymes: -ɔj
• Hyphenation: hòy

hoy m (invariable)

1. (nautical) hoy (small coaster vessel)

hoy (third-person singular simple present hoy, present participle hoyin, simple past hoyed, past participle hoyed)

1. (South Scots) to throw

From Old Spanish oy, from Latin hodiē. Compare Portuguese hoje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoi/ [ˈoi̯]

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• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification: hoy

hoy

1. today

   Synonym: hoy día

• “hoy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “hoy” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

• huy, oy, uy

Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: English hey, Mandarin 哎 (āi), Latin eia, and Czech ahoj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoj/, [ˈhoɪ̯]

hoy (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜌ᜔)

1. (colloquial, informal) expression used to call the attention of somebody: hey!

   Hoy! Gumising na kayong lahat dyan!

   Hey! Wake up all of you there!

2. (colloquial, informal) expression used as a warning or as a protest: hey!

   Hoy! Hindi ako ang kumuha ng pera mo!

   Hey! I didn't take your money!

• The expression hoy can be perceived as disrespectful in some contexts, especially with one's seniors or superiors. Reactions may be heard such as:

  Huwag mo akong hoy-hoyin! ― Don't call me 'hoy'!