intj
Meaning 1
Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
hoy
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/hɔɪ/
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rhymes with -ɔɪ
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CMU ARPABET: HH OY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
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name
Meaning 5
A small uninhabited island of the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).
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noun
Meaning 6
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 7
Initialism of head of year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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verb
Meaning 8
To incite; to drive onward.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To throw.
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Usage: Australia, Northumbria
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, yeet
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noun
Meaning 10
a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barge, flatboat, lighter
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Broader terms: boat
Narrower terms: dredger, houseboat, pontoon, scow, wherry, Norfolk wherry
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEochaidh (“descendant of Eochaid”).
From Orkney and Shetland Scots Hoy, from Old Norse há (“high”) + ey (“island”).
Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.
Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Old Norse: Háey — Orkney island
- Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Thothaigh — Orkney island
- Dutch: heude — small coaster vessel
- French: heu — small coaster vessel
- Italian: hoy — small coaster vessel