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halloo

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FromMiddle Englishhallow(“pursue, urge on”), fromOld Frenchhaloer, which isimitative.

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halloo

  1. Used togreet someone, or to catch theirattention.
  2. Used inhunting to urge on thepursuers.
    • 1796,Gottfried Augustus Bürger, “The Chase”, in [Walter Scott], transl.,The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, from the German […], Edinburgh:[…] Mundell and Son, […], for Manners and Miller, […]; and sold byT[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies (successors to Mr.[Thomas] Cadell) […],→OCLC, stanza I,page 1:
      Earl Walter winds his bugle horn;
      To horſe, to horſe,halloo,halloo!
      His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn,
      And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page65:
      "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.

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halloo (pluralhalloos)

  1. Ashout ofhalloo.

Verb

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halloo (third-person singular simple presenthalloosorhallooes,present participlehallooing,simple past and past participlehallooed)

  1. (intransitive) To shouthalloo.
    • c.1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:
      For voice—I have lost it withhallooing and singing of anthems.
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe],The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London:[…] W[illiam] Taylor […],→OCLC,pages310-311:
      […] 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:
    • 1857, S. H. Hammond,Wild Northern Scenes‎[2]:
      As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted andhallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.
    • 1907, William Hope Hodgson,The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"‎[3]:
      As we ran, wehallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.
    • 1917, Charles S. Brooks,There's Pippins And Cheese To Come‎[4]:
      Wehallooed again, to rouse the trapper.
  2. (transitive) To encourage with shouts; toegg (someone)on.
    • 1692, Richard Davis,Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice‎[5], London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6:
      There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, andhalloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.
    • 1718,Matthew Prior,Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, inPoems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101,[6]
      Old JOHNhalloo’s his hounds again:
    • 1735,George Berkeley,A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics‎[7], London: J. Tonson, page12:
      “Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians inGreat Britain, orhalloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them[…]”
    • 1838,William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, inCarl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination‎[8], volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages187–188:
      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.
    • 1915,Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, inOrdeal by Battle‎[9], London: Macmillan, page29:
      It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, ofhallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.
  3. (transitive) To chase with shouts oroutcries.
    • c.1608–1609 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene viii]:
      If I fly, Coriolanus,
      Holloa me like a hare.
    • 1694,Robert Ferguson,A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench‎[10], London, page 8:
      […] the unhappy Man washalloo’d and persued to Death[…]
    • 1915, E. D. Cuming,Fox and Hounds‎[11], London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7:
      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 tohalloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account tohalloo him too soon[…]
  4. (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.
    • 1955,W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, inSelected Poetry of W. H. Auden‎[12], New York: Modern Library, published1959, page149:
      A lake allows an average father, walking slowly,
      To circumvent it in an afternoon,
      And any healthy mother tohalloo the children
      Back to her bedtime from their games across:
    • 1974,James Purdy,The House of the Solitary Maggot‎[13], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page300:
      She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and thenhallooed him.
  5. (transitive) To shout (something).

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