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Holt vs Hoit - What's the difference?

holt | hoit |

As a proper noun holt

is an english and north-west european topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.

As a verb hoit is

(archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.

holt

English

Alternative forms

* hoult

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book X, ii:
  • *:As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold, / To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.
  • *1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXI, line 5
  • *:[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
  • The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

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    hoit

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
  • (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Derived terms

    * hoity * hoity-toity ----