Sekirov Dictionary

halloo

/həˈluː/

verb 5
exclamation 2
noun 1
forms 5

verb5

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To shout halloo.
- For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems. — 1596
•
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: — 1955
•
To shout (something).
- Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ‘Olivia!’ — 1601
•
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. — 1692
•
To chase with shouts or outcries.
- If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare. — 1608

exclamation2

Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
•
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. — 1796

noun1

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A shout of halloo.
- List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air. — 1634

forms

halloo'd · hallooed · hallooing · hallooes · halloos

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