hoik

• hoick

Possibly originally a form of hike (itself of unclear etymology).[1]

• IPA^(key): /hɔɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪk

hoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)

1. (cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.
2. (New Zealand) Spittle.

hoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)

1. (cricket) To play such a shot.
2. (informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
3. (informal, transitive) To throw something out.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”

4. (New Zealand) To spit.

• hoki

Akin to Finnish hoikka.

hoik

1. thin

Related to Finnish hoikka.

hoik

1. thin
2. slim, slender
3. high (of the voice)

• hoiketa

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “слабый, тонкий”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika