hoy

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  1. noun A small sloop-rigged coasting ship.
  2. noun A heavy barge used for freight.
  3. interjection Used to attract attention.

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Examples (46)

  • Las perversiones del obispo abusador de niñas pobres Fernando Lugo son hoy por hoy, tema obligado en los medios de Paraguay. —  Colorado Independent Media Center
  • Me da mucho placer anunciarles que a partir de hoy, you will be reading some news from the Spanish speaking world. —  Culturebot
  • You'll have to go at it like a hoy-draulic ram Never fear. —  Twice Bought
  • Ahoy! Haul away--hoy All in quite a smothered whisper, and then there was another moan Now again. —  Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
  • Hail again, and all together Ah hoy--oi--oi--oy There were four voices, but the hail appeared weak and ineffectual, like a cry in a dream, and seemed hardly to reach beyond the surf before it was suffocated in the creeping cloud. —  Frontier Stories
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  1. Middle English hoie, from Middle Dutch hoey, hoede.

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  1. = French heu, from Flemish hui, Dutch heu, heude, a hoy, a lighter; origin uncertain.
  2. from Dutch hui, come! up! well! = Danish hoi, hoy! ahoy! an aspirated syllable of exclamation, like ho, ha, etc.: cf. ahoy.
  3. from hoy, interj. Cf. Icelandic hōa, shout ‘ho’ or ‘hoy,’ of a shepherd, with dative, call to the sheep, gather them, from hō, interjection, ho!
 

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