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‘He spat out the bread and shouted "Hoy! Hoy!" down at the street.’
‘"Hoy!" shouted Charles, getting out of his seat.’
noun
mass nounAustralian
A game resembling bingo, using playing cards.
‘Why not bring your friends along to a fun morning playing Hoy and then delicious BBQ lunch?’
‘Thursday was pension day and a larger than usual number of visitors frequented the Workers Club, playing the pokies or taking part in a game of Hoy.’
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English.
A small coastal sailing vessel, typically single-masted.
‘Sailors of the Hound, blamed by Captain Mustard for running down his timber hoy, admitted that their collier lay so low in the water she could not pass over a shelf in the Thames near Rainham until flood tide.’
‘Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.’
‘The centrepiece of the gallery will be a three-quarter view full-scale model of a transport hoy, a reproduction of the Foreman's Office, and the quayside along which the boat will be moored.’
‘In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, English hoys plied a trade between London and the north Kent coast.’
Origin
Middle English: from Middle Dutch hoei, of unknown origin.
[with object]Northern English, Australian informal
Throw.
‘If we think there's a possibility that everyone out there would accept it, we take it to a mass meeting which we did the last time and they hoyed it out.’
‘Simple: take your trainers off, wind your arm up, and get hoying your ‘shoe’ - the pleasing alternative to the game played by all those wizened, pipe-smoking Frenchmen.’
‘Not wanting anyone to see such a tiddler he hoyed it overboard.’
‘So he hoyed it in a well. So he threw it down a well.’
‘1970's camping cavers had adopted the Dounreay technique for disposing of their rubbish - they'd hoyed it all down a deep shaft.’