hoicks, hoick, int. (n.)
(hɔɪks, hɔɪk)
Also 8 hoics, 8– hoix; 8– hoic; 7 hoika.
[Origin unknown: it has also the form yoick, -s.]
A call used in hunting to incite the hounds. Also transf.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 212 Speaking to his dogs by name, saying ‘Now A!’ then ‘B!’ ‘Hoika C!’ and such like words of art. 1756 Foote Eng. fr. Paris ii. Wks. 1799 I. 110 Hoic a boy, hoic a boy..Hey boy, hoix, my little Buck. 1773 Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. Epil. 13 Then hoiks to jigs and pastimes ev'ry night. 1859 Art Taming Horses xii. 199 Cover hoick! i.e. Hark into cover!..And to a particular hound—Hoick, Rector! Hoick, Bonny Lass! |
b. n. A cry of ‘hoicks!’
| 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) III. 52 A smacking of whips, coarse laughs, and loud hoic hoics, with shrill hollos. |
Hence hoicks (hoick) v., (a) trans. to incite or salute with ‘hoicks!’; (b) intr. to ‘hark back’.
| 1762 Smollett Sir L. Greaves Misc. Wks. 1806 V. 88 The fox-hunters..hoicksed the speaker, exclaiming,—‘Well opened, Jowler—to 'un again, Sweetlips!’ 1823 Scott Fam. Lett. 11 May (1894) II. 172 Come to Abbotsford with him, and we will hoicks back with you again to Rokeby. 1897 Punch CXIII. 121/2 Huntsman getting warm, and ‘Hoic-ing’. |