{"id":13360,"date":"2009-01-14T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/14\/fun-words-for-the-day.html"},"modified":"2009-01-14T07:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:47:35","slug":"fun_words_for_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/fun_words_for_the_day.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun words for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both of these from Jeffrey Kacirk’s Forgotten Words<\/em>:<\/p>\n

HOYT<\/p>\n

\n

Hoyt<\/em>, or hoit<\/em>, is to act the romp or hoyden. Winsome and spirited maids go hoyting <\/em>across the English stage of the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n

Hoity-toity <\/em>is an expansion of the same word and originally applied to frolicsome women. … The meaning of hoity-toity <\/em>was altered to become an expression of petulance and surprised disgust, in which function it remains common.<\/p>\n

The verb to hoit <\/em>almost disappeared. It is a pity, as it went well with the racing and chasing of “delightful girles” [in] an anonymous poem of 1675, The Chase:<\/em> <\/p>\n

So ran, so sang, so hoyted the moone’s maids
Light as young leverettes [greyhounds] skip their buskin’d feet,
Spurning th’ enamell’d sward [grass] as they did fleet.<\/em> <\/p>\n

— Ivor Brown, Book of Words <\/em>(1944)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

HOCHLE<\/p>\n

\n

To tumble lewdly with women in open day.<\/p>\n

— John Mactaggart, Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia <\/em>(1824)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Both of these from Jeffrey Kacirk’s Forgotten Words: HOYT Hoyt, or hoit, is to act the romp or hoyden. 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