hoo
see also: Hoo
Pronunciation Pronoun
  1. (South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire) she
Interjection
  1. (obsolete) hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy
    Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! — Shakespeare, Coriolanus.
    With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life — Shakespeare, Hamlet.
  2. (Geordie) Used to grab the attention of others.
    "Hoo yee!"
Adverb

hoo (not comparable)

  1. (Northumbria, Geordie) how
Noun

hoo

  1. (obsolete, outside, placenames) A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.

Hoo
Proper noun
  1. The village of Hoo St Werburgh in Kent in the United Kingdom.
    • 1840 June, Church of Hoo St. Werburga, Kent, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 13, page 579:
      The earliest date connected with the persons mentioned, that can be gathered from the confirmatory charters, is from a confirmation of Henry Wifward's gift of the Combe portion of tithes in Hoo, granted by Bishop Gundulph in the year 1091.
    • 1868, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex, page 90:
      The Church of Hoo (5 m. N.E. from Strood) is dedicated to St. Werburgh of Mercia, who, although she drove by her prayers the “wild geese” from her fields at Wecdon, in Northamptonshire, has certainly not expelled them from Hoo. Wild fowl of all kinds abound […]
  2. A village/and/civil parish in Suffolk.
    • 1888, East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries, edited by C. H. Evelyn White, page 31:
      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.



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