单词 | yoick |
释义 | yoickv. Chiefly Fox-hunting. intransitive. To shout or cry ‘yoick!’. Also transitive: to encourage or urge on (a hound) by crying ‘yoick!’. Cf. yoicks v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > signal [verb (intransitive)] > call to hounds hollo1613 yoicka1828 yoax1828 seek1840 yoicks1840 to seek dead1850 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > of huntsmen routa1425 hollo1613 soho1824 tally-ho1826 yoicka1828 yoax1828 yoicks1840 a1828 J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage (1830) II. 221 A pursuit was instantly commenced..my companions running, yoicking and whooping, like a pack of huntsmen after an unfortunate fox. 1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xiv The swell huntsman yoicked his hounds into cover. 1900 County Gentleman 13 Jan. 57/3 As soon as hounds were yoicked into that fine cover they had a fox on his legs. 1931 Daily Mail (Hull) 28 Nov. 4/6 By arrangement those in front gave us loud commands..We on our part were continually ‘yoicking’ fore and aft to our invisible companions on the course. 1990 S. Sturges Preston Sturges 56 By the time she got to me and started lifting up the covers, I shot out the other side of the bed like an arrow and ran yoicking through the infirmary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yoickint.n. Chiefly Fox-hunting. Now rare. A. int. A call or cry used to urge on hounds. Cf. yoax int., yoicks int. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > cry [interjection] > cry soho1307 sa-ha1606 whoo-whoop1611 harka1616 hark away1737 yoax1762 tally-ho1773 yoicks1774 yoick1781 gone away1795 hyke1823 to-ho1825 yoi1826 heu-gase1827 1781 Polite Singer 29 Chanter away,—yoick! Doxy, heigh! 1833 Caledonian Mercury 2 Dec. She made, what is termed by sportsmen, a ‘double’, which excited the sporting propensity of the worthy knight, who immediately gave ‘Yoic—stole away.’ 1895 Outing Feb. 395/1 ‘Yoick! forward! good hounds!’' he shouted in ecstacy, as the gladdened pack swept on like gulls on the wing. 1905 E. W. Hornung Thief in Night in Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 204/1 Up came the daft yells of these sporting oafs:..‘Yoick—yoick—yoick!’ 1986 J. McMeish Lovelock xxiv. 336 Hoddie and I would be round the hospital wards shouting at each other (‘A nailing good gallop, what!’ ‘Ware wine!’... ‘Yoick! Yoick! Yoick!’), guying the Country folk. B. n. A cry or exclamation of ‘yoick!’. Cf. yoicks n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations O?c1225 heyc1400 hoc1405 whoopc1450 oha1535 ooh1602 whowb1602 phew1613 hogmanay1692 ah1712 yo-hope1724 whew1751 whoo1763 yah1812 yo-heave-ho1813 yoicks1817 yo-he-ho1827 yo1830 boo1833 yoick1854 hot-cha-cha1932 ooh-la-la1952 ooh-ah1957 eina1971 eish2005 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Dec. 354/2 I have seen him lead out from the highest sequence of a suit of eight with a ‘Yoick, tally-ho!’. 1877 Shamrock Mar. 375/1 With a loud ‘Yoick pups!’ [the squire] plied whip and spur, and plunged into the hazy fields. 1915 W. Bamfylde Midsummer Magic 284 There was a shrill ‘Yoick! Ho! Ho!’ and mare and man were flying up the lane. 1974 D. Norden in F. Muir & D. Norden Upon my Word 7 A moment's gaping—then whoops and yoicks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.a1828int.n.1781 |
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