Sekirov Dictionary

huzzah

/həˈzɑː/

exclamation 2
noun 1
verb 1
forms 3

exclamation2

(old-fashioned) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
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(literary, no longer used) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment, or approval.
- Deposed King: 'KING KNIGHT REIGNS NO MORE? HUZZAH! NOW I CAN RULE PRIDEMOOR! HURRAH!' — 2014

noun1

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A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
- The night that she was awakened by the loud huzzah of the Watchman on her palace roof, she thrilled with the hope that her vengeance awaited only the arrival of the propitious hour. — 1924

verb1

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To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.
- 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

forms

huzzahed · huzzahing · huzzahs

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