hoit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪt

Unknown. Possibly from Old Norse, or a native Old English term. Perhaps somehow from Middle English hote (“to promise, etc.”).

Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”), as well as Scots hoit (“to move awkwardly or clumsily, especially of a stout person or animal, to waddle”), which may be more plausible (especially in sense 2).

hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoited) (intransitive)

1. (archaic) To behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof; with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon. […], London: William Tegg, published 1869, →OCLC, book IV, section IV (The Habits of Girls, Virgins, Brides, Wives, and Widows amongst the Jews), paragraph 2, page 535:

     Let none condemn them [girls] for rigs, because thus hoiting with boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime, and few more years will make them blush themselves into better manners.

2. (obsolete) To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
   • 1607 (first performance)​, Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:

     Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough

• hoity
• hoity-toity

hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoit)

1. Pronunciation spelling of hurt.

• thio-

hoit

1. second-person singular past indicative of hokea

• hiot, ihot

Borrowed from Hungarian holt, from hal, from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”).

hoit n (plural hoituri)

1. carrion, carcass
2. corpse

• stârv, mortăciune, leș, corp