Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool. · To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
Unknown. Possibly from Old Norse, or a native Old English term. Perhaps somehow from Middle English hote (“to promise, etc.”). Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”), as well as Scots hoit (“to move awkwardly or clumsily, especially of a stout person or animal, to waddle”), which may be more plausible (especially in sense 2).
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