Thought I'd share a conversation I had recently with a Britspeaker:

B: I got hoicked out of my room to work in somebody else's.
Me: hoicked?
B: Perfectly good word.
Me: Never heard of it. Hoicked sounds like something you did when you needed to get junk out of your lungs.
B: It's what shepherds do with their crooks.
Me: Goodness gracious--how do they ever get them swallowed in the first place??

>what shepherds do with their crooks.

and I suppose the latter was pronounced "croicks"?!

Likely; dunno, however, since this was a written convo. (Egad, the NZ influence is showing...)

And sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs ... and the occasional goat!

It's not a word I can ever recall seen written, however it is a word we used regularly as kids here in OZ. It was used as a reference to *throwing.*

Lapse! Bene venies!

yeah, wot 'e said ~ that's two posts this year already :)

So the goil says to me, she says "Ya drunkard! Take a hoike!" So I scuttle home with me tail between me legs, and as I see the bright eyeballs of a car coming up the road I turn around and put me thumb out trying to hitch-hoike a ride home.

So the goil says to me, she says "Ya drunkard! Take a hoike!" So I scuttle home with me tail between me legs, and as I see the bright eyeballs of a car coming up the road I turn around and put me thumb out trying to hitch-hoike a ride home.

Let me guess: the East Ends's answer to Damon Runyon himself in Brooklyn found.

no apologies to PDQ Bach