hoy

Noun (1)

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.
   • He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare,
     From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes
     Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • Per packet per Hoy.1590 May 31, George Carew, letter to William Cecil

Interjection

1. Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!

Verb (1)

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

1. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

Verb (2)

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

1. (Australia, Northumbria) To throw.
   • They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.1970 June, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span

   Synonyms:

   fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Hoy

Hoy (countable and uncountable, plural Hoys)

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hoy

Hoy

1. An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
2. A small uninhabited island of the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).

Noun (2) capitalized: HOY

HOY (plural HOYs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of head of year.