different between haik vs hoik

English

Alternative forms

• haick
• hayk

Etymology

From Arabic ?????

Noun

haik (plural haiks)

1. A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs.
   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, VI:

     Woollen hayks for garments are manufactured here of a curious texture, extremely light and fine, called El Haik Filelly.

References

• Oxford English Reference 1996

Anagrams

• Kiha, akhi

English

Alternative forms

• hoick

Etymology

Possibly originally a form of hike (itself of unclear etymology).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

hoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)

1. (cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.
2. (New Zealand) Sputum.

Verb

hoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)

1. (cricket) To play such a shot.
2. (informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
3. (informal, transitive) To throw something out.
4. (New Zealand) To spit.

References

Anagrams

• Hiko, hoki

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish hoikka.

Adjective

hoik

1. thin

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Finnish hoikka.

Adjective

hoik

1. thin
2. slim, slender
3. high (of the voice)

Inflection

Derived terms

• hoiketa

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika