Hoyed vs Ahoyed - What's the difference?
hoyed | ahoyed |
(hoy)
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
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* Cowper
(label) to throw
(ahoy)
(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
* 1751: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’'', (The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle), (Tobias Smollett).
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As verbs the difference between hoyed and ahoyed
is that hoyed is past tense of hoy while ahoyed is past tense of ahoy.hoyed
English
Verb
(head)hoy
English
Etymology 1
or (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, / From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes / Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.
- The hoy went to London every week.
Etymology 2
, compare (ahoy).Etymology 3
Verb
References
* * * * * * * ----ahoyed
English
Verb
(head)ahoy
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy! ” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}