Hoit vs Hoid - What's the difference?
hoit | hoid |
(archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
(obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
* 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 hoit and hoid
is that hoit is to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously while hoid is eye dialect of from=NYC lang=en.hoit
English
Verb
(head)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Derived terms
* hoity * hoity-toity ----hoid
English
Verb
- Tink o' de woist sting you ever hoid of dat de cops found out about.