hollo
See also: Hollo, holló, and höllo
English
Etymology
See halloo, and compare holla.
Interjection
hollo
- Hey, hello
- 1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
- And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.
- 1922, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories:
- 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!
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Noun
hollo (plural hollos)
- A cry of "hollo"
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems:
- 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:
- "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."
- 1910, W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts:
- The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.
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Verb
hollo (third-person singular simple present holloes, present participle holloing, simple past and past participle holloed)
- To cry "hollo"
- 1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas:
- And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.
- 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
- Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.
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