hoy
Plural: hoys
Noun
- A small, heavy boat or barge.
- a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Intj
- Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!
Verb
- To incite; to drive onward.
- To throw.
Examples
- He tried to HOY a few more points onto his score with a short, obscure word.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.
Synonyms
barge, flatboat, lighter, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
Scrabble Score: 9
hoy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhoy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hoy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary