hoit

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɪ.ti/

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh hoetian (to dally, dandle).

Verb

hoit

  1. (archaic) To play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
  2. (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

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

  1. Eye dialect spelling of hurt.

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Finnish

Verb

hoit

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

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