hoit

The confusion comes from the similarity of the noun hoi polloi and the adjective hoity-toity, a rhyming compound from the English dialect term hoit, “to play the fool,” which has come to mean “foolishly snooty.”

No Uncertain Terms

Actually, Sinatra subtly cracked wise that he was "hoit" (da Joisy accent was quite deliberate) by not being asked to sing.

Stranger In The Night

So yous all just make like trees and get outta here before someone gets hoit.

Rowling’s attack dogs bite partygoers

Besides, even if this doesn't help -- as my dad used to say, it can't hoit.

Wendy Block: Printing Poetry

So the money primary will continue because of Mark Twain's theory of bourbon, that "too much is not enough" or because you can't be exactly sure what the minimum credible threshold is, or because like chicken soup, "it can't hoit."

Mark Green: Does Money Matter?

Her embarrassed, American-born son tries to explain acting to her and at the same time to shush her, and she insists, undaunted: It couldn't hoit!

S. L. Wisenberg: Taxol: Nasty, Brutish, and...Not Necessary?

While 30-second ads this late in a presidential campaign are not decisive, as we say of chicken soup, they can't 'hoit.'

Mark Green: 7 Days: Teflon-Obama? w/ Dorgan, Huffington, Green & Bender

July 13, 2008 at 2:56 pm or getin hoit in akcedent…

Leaving car at home, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

One thing age has given me, however, is the ego to accept that my ego doesn't know everything, and I'm willing to do a little couples therapy with the old Jewish adage: "It can't hoit!"

8/30/02 Tessa flew to Los

"I ain't here to hoit youse," he said, sullenly, after a minute's silence.

The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods