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Haik vs Hoik - What's the difference?

haik | hoik |

As a proper noun haik

is .

As a noun hoik is

(cricket) a wild hook shot played without style.

As a verb hoik is

to play such a shot.

haik

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs.
  • *1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco , VI:
  • *:Woollen hayks for garments are manufactured here of a curious texture, extremely light and fine, called El Haik Filelly.

    • References

    * Oxford English Reference 1996

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    hoik

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) a wild hook shot played without style
  • (NZ) spittle.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play such a shot.
  • To lift something up wildly.
  • To throw something out.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=“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.”}}
  • (NZ) to spit.