A surname. / An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29). / A small uninhabited island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).

plural of HOY

A surname from German.

plural of Hoying

A call to gain someone's attention; hey!

Only used in hoi polloi

A greeting.

(obsolete, nautical) A vessel, often painted red and carrying a red flag, that carried gunpowder to a man of war

plural of powder hoy

(collective) The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.) / (proscribed) The elite.