hoit
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown. Possibly from Old Norse, or a native Old English term. Perhaps somehow from Middle English hote (“to promise, etc.”).
Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”), as well as Scots hoit (“to move awkwardly or clumsily, especially of a stout person or animal, to waddle”), which may be more plausible (especially in sense 2).
Verb
[edit]hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoited) (intransitive)
- (archaic) To behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool.
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, “ Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book IV, section VI (The Habits of Girles, Virgins, Brides, Wives, and Widows amongst the Jews), paragraph 2, page 110:
- Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.
- (obsolete) To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
- 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:
- Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoit)
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]hoit
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian holt, from hal, from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”).
Noun
[edit]hoit n (plural hoituri)
Declension
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | hoit | hoitul | hoituri | hoiturile | |
genitive-dative | hoit | hoitului | hoituri | hoiturilor | |
vocative | hoitule | hoiturilor |
Synonyms
[edit]- stârv, mortăciune, leș, corp
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