different between noy vs hoy

English

Etymology

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??/

Verb

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]

   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     "In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe."]

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Noun

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

Anagrams

• Yon, yon

Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading

• “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.

Noun

hoy (plural hoys)

1. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
   • July 1779, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin

     The hoy went to London every week.

Derived terms

• powder hoy

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.

Interjection

hoy

1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

Verb

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

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

Etymology 3

Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.

Verb

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

1. (Northumbria, Australia) To throw.

References

• hoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• 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, [3]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• hyo-

Gutnish

Etymology

From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawj?

Noun

hoy n

1. hay

Derived terms

• hoytjauk (“haystack”)

Scots

Verb

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

1. (South Scots) to throw

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish oy, from Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodi?. Compare Portuguese hoje, Italian oggi, hui in French aujourd'hui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oi/, [?oi?]

Adverb

hoy

1. today

   Synonym: hoy día

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish oye

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hoj/

Interjection

hoy

1. expression used to call the attention of somebody

2. expression used to inform someone

Usage notes

Using this word can make you sound disrespectful in some contexts. Refrain from using it when you're talking to someone who you don't know especially when he's older than you.

Synonyms

• huy
• uy
• oy