AHOY

Definition: AHOY

AHOY

Interjection

1. A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "AHOY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Etymology: Ahoy \A*hoy"\, interj. [from Old English expression, interj. hoy.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ahoy polloi! (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)
Movie/TV Titles	Murder Ahoy (1964) Chips Ahoy (1956) Sheep Ahoy (1954) Skirts Ahoy! (1952) Shape Ahoy (1945)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear (reference) Ahoy, Uncle Roy (Road to Reading. Mile 2) (reference) Captain Betty, Ahoy! (reference) Kleiner Eisbar, Komm Bald Wieder! Ahoy There Little Polar Bear (reference) Penguin Pete, Ahoy (North-South Paperback) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Skirts Ahoy! (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The AHOY, a charter boat ready for customers.Credit: Fisheries.		Ahoy!!.Credit: Library of Congress.
	"Ahoy! Hooray! But make the most of it!!".Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"AHOY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.59% of the time. "AHOY" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	70.59%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	29.41%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

Expression using "AHOY": ahoy there!. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "AHOY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		хей (hallo, hi, hollo, hoy), ей (hallo, here, hi, hollo, hoy), ало (hallo, hello, yello). (various references)

Czech		ahoj (cheerio, hallo, hello, hi, see you). (various references)

Dutch		heiho. (various references)

Esperanto		hoj. (various references)

Farsi		نداوخبربرای مواقع سلام . (various references)

German		land in sicht (land ahoy). (various references)

Greek		επιφώνημα χαιρετισμού ναύτου. (various references)

Pig Latin		ahoyay

Portuguese		olá (hello, hey), eh (eider, Western Sahara). (various references)

Romanian		hei (hallo, heigh, hello, hey, heyday, hi, hoa, holla, hullo, hullo there, huzza, I say, oh), ei (attaboy, come, eh, gad, halloo, hei, heigh, her, hers, hey, hoy, I say, its, now, now then, phew, tell it to the marines, they, well). (various references)

Russian		на судне!. (various references)

Spanish		ah (ah, aha, ha, oh). (various references)

Swedish		ohoj. (various references)

Turkish		yahu (egad, hullo, man alive), hey (halloo, heigh, hello, hey, hi, hoy, I say, o). (various references)

Ukranian		ей (hey, hi, hoy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"AHOY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahah, Abhay, acoy, adho, ahah, Ahau, ahex, Ahhaa, ahii, Ahilya, aho, ahog, Ahoi, ahoj, Ahooi, ahoot, ahor, ahoye, Ahoyo, ahoys, ahto, Ahu, Ahue, ahum, Ahwoi, ahy, aioi, ajoy, Alho, Anhui, anoi, anoy, Aoh, aoi, Apoyo, Asho, Ashou, asoi, asoy, asoya, Athay, athy, atoy, Bhoy, ethoxy, Nahayo, phoy, whooy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: hoya.
	Words within the letters "a-h-o-y"
	-1 letter: hao, hay, hoy, yah.
	-2 letters: ah, ay, ha, ho, oh, oy, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-o-y"
	+1 letter: hoagy, hoary, hoyas, yahoo.
	+2 letters: anyhow, haymow, hooray, horary, poachy, shamoy, shoaly, yahoos.
	+3 letters: aliyoth, anchovy, athodyd, atrophy, charpoy, chayote, halcyon, harmony, hautboy, haycock, hayfork, hayloft, haymows, hoarily, hodaddy, holiday, holyday, hoorays, hyaloid, hyoidal, hypogea, hyponea, hypoxia, loathly, shadowy, shamoys, tachyon, tallyho, throaty.
	+4 letters: apophony, apophyge, athodyds, babyhood, ballyhoo, beachboy, charpoys, chayotes, chorally, chronaxy, diaphony, geophagy, halcyons, haploidy, harlotry, hautboys, haycocks, hayforks, haylofts, hexapody, hoarsely, hogmanay, hogmenay, holidays, hologamy, holydays, homestay, homogamy, honorary, hoorayed, hyalogen, hyaloids, hydragog, hydrator, hyoidean, hypoacid, hypogeal, hypogean, hyponeas, hyponoia, hypopnea, hypoxias, hyracoid, ladyhood, lymphoma, mahogany, monarchy, myograph, myopathy, nomarchy, nonhardy, oafishly, octarchy, omophagy, pansophy, polymath, pyorrhea, rhapsody, shamoyed, soothsay, stomachy, tachyons, tallyhos, toadyish, yahooism.
	+5 letters: airworthy, amphiboly, anhydrous, anthocyan, anthology, antiphony, apocrypha, apophyges, apophyses, apophysis, athrocyte, authority, ayatollah, babyhoods, ballyhoos, beachboys, biography, cacophony, chatoyant, cherimoya, chirimoya, chocolaty, coryphaei, cymophane, diachrony, dichogamy, dysphonia, dysphoria, epochally, foolhardy, forsythia, geography, hagiology, halophyte, haplology, haplotype, hogmanays, hogmenays, holidayed, holidayer, homestays, homoplasy, honorably, hooraying, horseplay, hortatory, hyalogens, hybridoma, hydathode, hydragogs, hydration, hydrators, hydrolase, hydrozoan, hyperbola, hyperopia, hypnoidal, hypoblast, hypocaust, hypomania, hypomanic, hyponoias, hypopneas, hypotaxes, hypotaxis, hypotonia, hypoxemia, hyracoids, inharmony, isohyetal, kymograph, ladyhoods, logomachy, lymphomas, monophagy, mycophagy, myographs, myopathic, ohmically, oligarchy, orography, overhasty, pantyhose, patchouly, pathology, phagocyte, photoplay, phyllodia, playhouse, polyantha, polyanthi, polygraph, polyhedra, polymaths, polymathy, polyphagy, polyphase, poppyhead, porphyria, pyorrheas, scholarly, seaworthy, shadowily, shallowly, shamoying, soothsays, sycophant, tallyhoed, taphonomy, theocracy, theophany, throatily, throwaway, thylakoid, thyratron, thyroidal, typograph, xylograph, yahooisms.
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