halloo
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: haloo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
dated
form: halloos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haloo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: halloos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hallooes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hallooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hallooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hallooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haloo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
pos: intj
gloss: Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
pos: intj
examples: Earl Walter winds his bugle horn;
To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo!
His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn,
And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
"Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all.
gloss: A shout of halloo.
pos: noun
examples: List, list, I hear
Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with loud halloos, brandishing their spears, and splashing through the water in all directions.
She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward.
gloss: To shout halloo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.
[…] 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:
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.
As we ran, we hallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.
We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.
gloss: To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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:
“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 […]”
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.
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.
gloss: To chase with shouts or outcries.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If I fly, Coriolanus,
Holloa me like a hare.
[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
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 […]
gloss: To call or shout to; to hail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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:
She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.
gloss: To shout (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out ‘Olivia!’
[…] the servants halloo'd out their excuses from the kitchen.
Related words: hollo
hello
Derived words: halloo before one is out of the wood
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