Haik vs Hoik - What's the difference?
haik | hoik |
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.
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.