hoit

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɪt/ Rhymes: -ɔɪt === Etymology 1 === 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). ==== Verb ==== hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoited) (intransitive) (archaic) To behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool. (obsolete) To romp noisily; to caper, to leap. ===== Derived terms ===== hoity hoity-toity === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== hoit (third-person singular simple present hoits, present participle hoiting, simple past and past participle hoit) Pronunciation spelling of hurt. === Anagrams === thio- == Finnish == === Verb === hoit second-person singular past indicative of hokea === Anagrams === hiot, ihot == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Hungarian holt, from hal, from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”). === Noun === hoit n (plural hoituri) carrion, carcass corpse ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== stârv, mortăciune, leș, corp