int. ? Obs. Also yooi. A huntsman’s cry to encourage the hounds: cf. YOICKS.
1826. Sporting Mag. (N.S.), XVII. 270. The word was given ‘Yoi—hark on, hark.’
1831–4. R. S. Surtees, Jorrocks’s Jaunts, i. (1838), 10. ‘Yooi in there!’ shouts Tom Hill, who has long hunted this crack pack.
1832. Egan’s Bk. Sports, 221/2. ‘Yooi, over he goes!’ holloas the Squire.
1869. Whyte-Melville, Songs & Verses, 90. Yoi! wind him! and rouse him! By Jove, he’s away.
