hollo

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Hey, hello

   • And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.
   • Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!
2. 2

   hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)

   • ‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.
3. 3

   A cry of "hollo"

   • And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!
   • "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."
   • The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.
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   1. 4

      To cry "hollo"

      • And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.
      • Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.

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