On: Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

[parfe]

>hoik

I learned a new word today.

>2. To lift something up wildly.

[redblacktree → parfe]

Hah! Thanks for pointing it out. I thought it was made up.

[rustynails → parfe]

That's a it it. Hoist, buy yank quickly. It also has a different meaning that came back to me,

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=golly&defid=6...

To hoik a golly. I last heard that in the 70s. Not so charming...

[thekingofspain → parfe]

It appears to me like a portmanteau of hoist and yank.

[monk_e_boy → parfe]

I've never written that word down, had to just go phonetically