halloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈluː/
ipa: /hæˈluː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: halloos
form: hallooes
form: hallooing
form: hallooed
form: hallooed
form: haloo
Etymology: From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
Senses: examples: text: For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: […] 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:
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 310-311:
text: As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: As we ran, we hallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.
ref: 1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig":
text: We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.
ref: 1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come:
glosses: To shout halloo.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6:
text: 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:
text: “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 […]”
ref: 1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, page 12:
text: 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.
ref: 1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188:
text: 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.
ref: 1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, in Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, page 29:
glosses: To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
examples: text: If I fly, Coriolanus,
Holloa me like a hare.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene viii]:
text: […] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
ref: 1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8:
text: 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 […]
ref: 1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7:
glosses: To chase with shouts or outcries.
examples: text: 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:
ref: 1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149:
text: She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.
ref: 1974, James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 300:
glosses: To call or shout to; to hail.
examples: text: Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out ‘Olivia!’
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: […] the servants halloo'd out their excuses from the kitchen.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: To shout (something).
Derived terms: halloo before one is out of the wood
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Related terms: hollo
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