yoicks
Americaninterjection
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Fox Hunting. (used as a cry by the huntsman to encourage the hounds.)
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(used as a cry of high spirits or encouragement.)
interjection
Etymology
Origin of yoicks
First recorded in 1765–75; compare earlier hoick(s) < ?
Example Sentences
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Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yoicks, yoicks, yoicks, gone away,” shouted several, uproariously.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!"
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail—tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward!
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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