Interjection Noun
halloo (plural halloos)
- A shout of halloo.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus (Milton), in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1645, p. 96,
- List, list, I hear
- Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 70,
- 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.
- 1962, Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, New York: Doubleday, Chapter 3, p. 25,
- 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.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus (Milton), in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1645, p. 96,
halloo (halloos, present participle hallooing; past and past participle hallooed)
- (intransitive) To shout halloo.
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,
- For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, pp. 310-311,
- […] 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:
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,
- (transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
- 1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, p. 6,
- 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:
- 1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, p. 12,
- “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 […] ”
- 1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage” in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, New York: George Adlard, Volume 2, pp. 187-188,
- He played with Jacko like a child—rolled with him about the decks—hallooed him on to all manner of mischief—clapped his hands and cheered him in his performance, and then, in his own language, pronounced a high eulogy upon his achievements.
- 1915, F. S. Oliver, Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 29,
- It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, of hallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.
- 1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, p. 6,
- (transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries.
- circa 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 8,
- If I fly, Coriolanus,
- Holloa me like a hare.
- 1694, Robert Ferguson (minister), A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, p. 8,
- […] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
- 1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 7,
- Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]
- circa 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 8,
- (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.
- 1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes” in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, 1959, p. 149,
- 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:
- 1974, James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, p. 300,
- She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.
- 1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes” in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, 1959, p. 149,
- (transitive) To shout (something).
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 5,
- Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
- And make the babbling gossip of the air
- Cry out ‘Olivia!’
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 39,
- […] the servants hallooed out their excuses from the kitchen.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 5,
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