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}
],
"etymology_text": "From \"a-hoy\", hoy being a Middle English greeting dating back to the fourteenth century.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ahoys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ahoy (plural ahoys)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "yoohoo"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "There were many ahoys heard from the approaching ship."
}
],
"glosses": [
"An utterance of this interjection."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈhɔɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ahoy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ahoy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ahoy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ahoy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ahoy.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ahoi"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ahoy",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "אֲהוֹי"
}
],
"word": "ahoy"
}
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