halloo

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

2. 2

   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.
   • "Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all.
3. 3

   A shout of halloo.

   • List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
   • At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with loud halloos, brandishing their spears, and splashing through the water in all directions.
   • She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward.
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   1. 4

      To shout halloo.

      • For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
      • […] they set up two or three great Shouts, hollowing with all their might, to try if they could make their Companions hear; but all was to no purpose:
      • As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.
   2. 5

      To encourage with shouts

      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.
      • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101, Old JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:
      • “Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]”
   3. 6

      To chase with shouts or outcries.

      • If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare.
      • […] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
   4. 7

      To call or shout to

      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:
      • She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.
   5. 8

      To shout (something).

      • Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ‘Olivia!’
      • […] the servants halloo'd out their excuses from the kitchen.

The neighborhood

• neighborhollo
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