Hoit vs Hoik - What's the difference?
hoit | hoik |
(archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
(obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
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.
As verbs the difference between hoit and hoik
is that hoit is (archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously while hoik is to play such a shot.As a noun hoik is
(cricket) a wild hook shot played without style.hoit
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Verb
(head)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)