Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used as a hunting cry to urge hounds after a fox.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An old fox-hunting cry.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. (Hunting) A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
Examples
“There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!" ...”
“We'll go out and get what's coming to us from a farmer; and then yoicks! and away. ”
“Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail -- tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward!”
“As for the hooey, I’m not keen on Ideas in Art — but yoicks! eXistenz was levels above 1999′s The Matrix in that department.”
“These incentives succeed in landing Tom and his nag in the wished-for spot, when, immediately, the wood begins to resound with shouts of "Yoicks True-bo-y, yoicks”
“True-bo-y, yoicks push him up, yoicks wind him! "and the whole pack begin to work like good 'uns.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yoicks’.
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Hunting cries
tantara, yoicks, tantivy, tallyho, chivvy, hoics, tally-ho, chivy, chevy, soho, hue, halloo and 15 more...
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yuke, yuft, yu, yrneh, ypsiliform, yperite, yowie, yordim, yoni, yttriferous, yon, yomp and 63 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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Baron Luke's Collection
An assortment of words, which, when used, should inject some vibrancy into your day, hopefully expunging any ennui!
expunge, cogitate, elucidate, post-haste, rebarbative, recalcitrant, smite, absquatulate, forlorn, thole, nefarious, insubordination and 124 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1999 more...
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From the Word Museum
A selection of Words from the book, The Word Museum: The most remarkable English words ever forgotten compiled by Jeffrey Kacirk.
Also see sionnach's list Discovered in the Word Museumabcedarian, abracadabrant, aflunters, aforcing, anywhen, babies-in-the-eyes, back-friend, barlihood, beblubbered, begrumpled, begrutten, bibitory and 73 more...
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ecbatic's list
zenzizenzizenzic, fabaceous, toggle, captious, sasspirilla, boorish, recalcitrant, yoicks, mammalian, incarnate, garrulous, pandemonium and 2 more...
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