单词 | hoit |
释义 | † hoitv. Obsolete or dialect. 1. intransitive. ‘To indulge in riotous and noisy mirth’ (Nares); to act the hoyden, to romp inelegantly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle i. sig. C3v Harke my husband hee's singing and hoiting. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iv. sig. H3 There he..sings, & hoights, and Reuels among his drunken companions. a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. C4 There you'll be hoyting and kissing the Wenches you. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 110 Let none condemn them [sc. girls] for Rigs, because thus hoiting with boys. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Hoit, to play the fool..to engage in some evident absurdity. 2. To move clumsily and with difficulty; to limp. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly hobble1362 clockc1400 hirple?a1500 hitch1513 himp1533 cramble1607 himple1656 hoit1786 tolter1821 hippity-hoppity1830 clop1863 hippity hop1879 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 166 Tho' now ye dow but hoyte and hoble, An' wintle like a saumont-coble. Derivatives hoiting n. and adj. [with the latter, compare hoyden adj.] (In sense 1.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] rampinga1425 daffing1535 May game1571 horseplay1590 hoiting1594 wantonizing1598 roguery1611 romperinga1625 hoity-toity1668 frolicking1676 frolic1677 romping1694 wantoning1701 vagary1791 skylarking1809 larking1813 rollicking1823 high-jinking1891 shenaniganning1924 grab-ass1948 mollocking1959 bants2008 society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective] ramping1484 rampish1530 frolic?1548 prankya1556 hoiting1594 tricksy1598 tida1641 frolickish1660 romping1662 hoity-toity1690 rompish1696 frolicsome1699 friskful1728 highty-tighty1737 frolicky1748 prankish1776 rollicking1786 prankfula1795 pranksome1810 tricksome1815 espiègle1816 larkish1823 skylarking1826 larking1828 rompy1838 larky1841 rollicksome1841 Pucklike1845 rollicky1846 frolicful1848 larksome1871 puckish1874 horseplayish1882 frolicking1887 tricksical1889 shenaniganning1924 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 166 Then would [I] hoyting wanton to a tribe Of loues my body haue abandoned. 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. ii. 487 The Court is not..a Market-place, for boyes, hoytings, and knaueries. a1631 J. Donne Progresse of Soule xlvii, in Poems (1633) 24 Us'd to wooe With hoiting gambolls..To make his mistresse merry. 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iii, in Dramatic Wks. (1873) III. 141 Young enough, But given too much to hoyting, and to barley-break. a1680 Lady Fanshawe in Lady Halkett & Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1979) 110 I was that which we graver people call a hoyting girle. 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. ii. 25 One of those hoiting Ladies, that love nothing like Fool and Fiddle. hoit n. northern dialect a spoilt child, a simpleton, an awkward silly girl, a hoyden. ΚΠ 1788 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 201 Hoit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1594 |
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