hoikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Possibly originally a form of hike (itself of unclear etymology).

発音

• IPA: /hɔɪk/
• 韻: -ɔɪk

名詞

hoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)

1. (cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.
2. (New Zealand) Sputum.
3. (gaming) A contraption that allows rapid teleportation in Terraria, making use of a glitch involving sloped blocks. [late 2013]

動詞

hoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)

1. (cricket) To play such a shot.
2. (informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
3. (informal, transitive) To throw something out.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”

4. (New Zealand) To spit.

参照

アナグラム

• Hiko, hoki, Khoi