different between hoit vs hoid

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??t/

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”).

Verb

hoit

1. (archaic) To play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

     Let none condemn them for rigs, because thus hoiting with boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime, and few more years will make them blush themselves into better manners

2. (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.

   • Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough

Derived terms

• hoity
• hoity-toity

Etymology 2

Verb

hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoit)

1. Pronunciation spelling of hurt.

Anagrams

• thio-

Finnish

Verb

hoit

1. Second-person singular indicative past form of hokea.

Anagrams

• hiot, ihot

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian holt, from hal, from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”).

Noun

hoit n (plural hoituri)

1. carrion, carcass

Declension

English

Verb

hoid

1. Pronunciation spelling of heard, representing New York City English.
   • 1927, James Stevens, Mattock, A. A. Knopf, page 217,

     "I've hoid of dat state. It's whur de Mormons all are...."

   • 1956, Elmer Rice, Street Scene: A Play in Three Acts, Samuel French, ?ISBN, Act III, page 117,

     "Why, ain't you hoid? He was last seen, flyin' over Nova Scotia, on his way to Paris."

   • 1997, Spider Robinson, Callahan's Legacy, Tor/Forge, ?ISBN, page 153,

     Tink o' de woist sting you ever hoid of dat de cops found out about.