Meaning & use
Hoit
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An obsolete verb meaning to indulge in noisy, riotous play or mirth.
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The old text describes villagers who would "hoit" about the square during the harvest festival.
Scholars trace boisterous "hoiting" in old parish records describing rowdy youths.
A note on using this word
"Hoit" is now obsolete on its own but survives inside the phrase "hoity-toity," which originally described such riotous, silly behavior before it came to mean "haughty."
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