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To: combat_boots

Being from North Dakota I aint too educated, so what exactly is “hoy toy”?


113 posted on 10/20/2010 1:11:22 PM PDT by Docbarleypop
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To: Docbarleypop

Oh. Just another way of saying uppity/gentry I guess.


114 posted on 10/20/2010 1:12:47 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Docbarleypop

I suspect it’s a corruption of “hoi toide,” which is an almost stereotypical example of the Virginia Tidewater accent (”hoi toide = hig tide for the unfamilar).

It’s emblematic of the landed gentry and the wealth of Virginia going back to colonial times, when religious dissenters settled in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond into what became West Virginia, with the Anglican establishment (literally the Established State Church) east of there.

It’s odd and fascinating, what a regional, dialectical term can tell you sometime, isn’t it?


136 posted on 10/23/2010 7:09:16 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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