Hoik vs Hoid - What's the difference?
hoik | hoid |
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.
* 1927 , James Stevens, Mattock , A. A. Knopf, page 217,
*:"I've hoid of dat state. It's whur de Mormons all are...."
* 1956 , Elmer Rice, Street Scene: A Play in Three Acts , , ISBN 0573615896, Act III, page 117,
*:"Why, ain't you hoid ? He was last seen, flyin' over Nova Scotia, on his way to Paris."
* 1997 , Spider Robinson, Callahan's Legacy , Tor/Forge, ISBN 0812550358, page 153,
As verbs the difference between hoik and hoid
is that hoik is to play such a shot while hoid is eye dialect of from=NYC lang=en.As a noun hoik
is a wild hook shot played without style.hoik
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(en verb)hoid
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- Tink o' de woist sting you ever hoid of dat de cops found out about.