hoy

• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto X:

     He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.

   • Cowper

     The hoy went to London every week.

• powder hoy

Borrowed from Dutch gooi, compare ahoy.

hoy

1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

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

1. (Geordie) To throw.

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

• hyo-

From Old Norse hey, from Proto-Germanic *hawją

hoy n

1. hay

• hoytjauk (“haystack”)

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

1. (Southern Scots) to throw

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoi/, [ˈoi̯]

hoy

1. today

• hoy día

• hoy en día
• hoy por hoy

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