Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To indulge in riotous and noisy mirth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
- verb obsolete To
leap ; tocaper ; toromp noisily.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 William Safire 2003
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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 William Safire 2003
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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 William Safire 2003
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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 William Safire 2003
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Actually, Sinatra subtly cracked wise that he was "hoit" (da Joisy accent was quite deliberate) by not being asked to sing.
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So yous all just make like trees and get outta here before someone gets hoit.
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Besides, even if this doesn't help -- as my dad used to say, it can't hoit.
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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."
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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? 2008
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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 2008
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