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† hoigh Obs.
[f. hoigh, hoy int.: cf. ‘on the qui vive’.]
Excitement; chiefly in phr. on (o') the hoigh: eager, excited; excitedly, riotously.
1576Gosson Spec. Humanum iv. in Sch. Abuse (Arb.) Notes 77 To set our heartes on hoygh for aye. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence (1607) 127 There comes running vpon the hoigh together to meete me, all the hucksters, fish⁓mongers, butchers. 1607Middleton Fam. of Love iii. ii, Young wenches now are all o' the hoigh. 1641Brome Joviall Crew i. Wks. 1873 III. 363, I left the merry Griggs..in such a Hoigh younder! such a frolic! |