halloo

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I felt strongly tempted to give the view-halloo, and push "Old Sandy" to the wall at once, but I knew that the fair de Compton would regard the exploit with severe [v]reprobation forever after.

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  1. interjection Used to catch someone's attention.
  2. interjection Used to urge on hounds in a hunt.
  3. noun A shout or call of "halloo.”
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  • All at once there was a wild halloo, and every eye was turned up to see the legs and part of the body of the prisoner protruding from the second story window, at which he was endeavoring to escape. —  Harriet, The Moses of Her People
  • In a moment they heard a halloo, and Gus came charging up the mountain slope. —  Rings of Ice
  • Louis! Where the devil are you, you brute of a painter There came an halloo--faint--downstream The beggar's at work somewhere in those bushes, and you couldn't get him out with dynamite until the light changed. —  The Man In The High-Water Boots 1909
  • Then halloo, halloo, halloo to the contest, Awake from your slumbers, no longer delay, But struggle for freedom, while struggle you may-- Then rally, rally, rally, rally, rally, rally, While our forests shall wave or while rushes a river, Oh, yield not your birth-right! —  The Liberty Minstrel
  • Then halloo, halloo, halloo, to the contest! —  The Liberty Minstrel
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holloa ·  scuffling ·  hurrah ·  yowl ·  whoop ·  lowing ·  shriller ·  battle-cries ·  hullabaloo ·  whinny ·  blare ·  stage-whisper
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of obsolete holla, stop!; see hello.

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  1. A sonorous variant of hallo, suited to a prolonged cry intended to be heard at a distance.
  2. from halloo, interj. Cf. hallo, hollo, hollow.
 

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/hæˈlu/
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