Hoo
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hoo¹
- /huː/
Sounds like who · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Middle English hoo, shoo (“she”) from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.
pronoun her · hers · herself
- she 'Aye, aye,' said the father, impatiently, 'hoo'll come. Hoo's a bit set up now, because hoo thinks I might ha' spoken more civilly; but hoo'll think better on it, and come. I can read her proud bonny face like a book.
- he, also a gender-neutral third person pronoun
hoo²
- /huː/
Sounds like who · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.
interjection
- Expressing joy, excitement, or victory. Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!
- Used to attract the attention of others. "Hoo yee!"
- An exclamation of pain. Old Peter, summoned to assist at getting Mrs Dibble upstairs, made no pretence of commiseration for the sufferer. "Gone and done it again, have you?" he said with satisfaction. "About the best thing you could have done, the way it'll keep you out of the shop a bit longer," which so far revived Mrs D
noun hoos
- An uttering of the cry 'hoo'. Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.
hoo³
- /huː/
Sounds like who · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Middle English howe, hu (“how”), from Old English hū (“how”). More at how.
adverb
- how
hoo⁴
- /huː/
Sounds like who · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Middle English hough, hogh, ho, from Old English hōh. Doublet of hough.
noun
- A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.
Hoo⁵
Where it comes from
From Old English hōh; see hoo.
proper noun
- The village of Hoo St Werburgh on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England. Hoo, St. Warburgh. […] Richard I confirmed to that Abbey a market in Hoo, of the gift of Maud de Canvill(s).
- A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2558). Bachcroft, Thomas; son of Thomas Bachcroft, of Bexwell, Norfolk. Educated under Mr. Spight. Age 18. Admitted pensioner, March 10, 1518. Man, John; of Hoo, Suffolk; son of Richard Man, mediocris fortunae. Admitted sizar. Tutor, Mr. Reve.
