huzzah
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /həˈzɑː/
- (nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
- (literary, poetic, sometimes humorous) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment or approval.
- (hoisting cry) heave, heave-ho
- (cheer indicating enjoyment or approval) hooray, hurrah, hurray, see also Thesaurus:well done.
huzzah (plural huzzahs)
- A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
huzzah (huzzahs, present participle huzzahing; past and past participle huzzahed)
- To cheer with a huzzah sound.
- 1891, in Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260:
- In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
- 1891, in Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260:
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