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Seehalloo, and compareholla.
hollo
- (dated)Hey,hello
1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, inA Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.[1]:And then toApollohollo, trees, hollo.
1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm,Grimm's Fairy Stories[2]:Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo!hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!
- (UK, dated)hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
1897, Richard Marsh,The Beetle:‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.
hollo (pluralhollos)
- A cry of "hollo"
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, inColeridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems[3]:And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners'hollo!
1819, Walter Scott,Ivanhoe[4]:"I always add myhollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."
1910, W.F. Drannan,Chief of Scouts[5]:The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and ahollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.
hollo (third-person singular simple presentholloes,present participleholloing,simple past and past participleholloed)
- To cry "hollo"
1899, J. S. LeFanu,Uncle Silas[6]:And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning tohollo after some trespassing cattle.
1904, Edward Dowden,Robert Browning[7]:Betterhollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.
