Ahoj vs Ahoy - What's the difference?
ahoj | ahoy | Derived terms |
Ahoj has no English definition.
(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
* 1751: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’'', (The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle), (Tobias Smollett).
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Ahoy is a derived term of ahoj.
Ahoj is likely misspelled.
Ahoj has no English definition.
As an interjection ahoy is
used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.As a verb ahoy is
to hail with a cry of "ahoy".ahoj
Not English
Ahoj has no English definition. It may be misspelled.ahoy
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy! ” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}