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halloo
- /həˈluː/
- /hæˈluː/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
interjection haloo
- Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
- Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers. Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
noun halloos · haloo
- A shout of halloo. List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
verb halloos · hallooes · hallooing · hallooed · haloo
- To shout halloo. For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
- To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on. There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.
- To chase with shouts or outcries. If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare.
- To call or shout to; to hail. A lake allows an average father, walking slowly, To circumvent it in an afternoon, And any healthy mother to halloo the children Back to her bedtime from their games across:
- To shout (something). Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ‘Olivia!’
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