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hollo en · INTJ

Etymology

See halloo, and compare holla.

Meanings

  1. (dated) Hey, hello
    • 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! 1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories:
    • And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo. 1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
  2. (UK, dated) hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
    • ‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

Forms

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hulloa alternative lexicographic
holler alternative lexicographic
holla alternative lexicographic
holloa alternative lexicographic
hollow alternative lexicographic

hollo en · NOUN

Etymology

See halloo, and compare holla.

Meanings

  1. A cry of "hollo"
    • "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow." 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
    • 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. 1910, W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts:
    • And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo! 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems:

Forms

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holler alternative lexicographic
holloa alternative lexicographic
hollos Number=Plur lexicographic
hulloa alternative lexicographic
holla alternative lexicographic
hollow alternative lexicographic

hollo en · VERB

Etymology

See halloo, and compare holla.

Meanings

  1. To cry "hollo"
    • And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle. 1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas:
    • Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose. 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:

Forms

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hulloa alternative lexicographic
holloing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
holla alternative lexicographic
holloes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
holloa alternative lexicographic
holler alternative lexicographic
holloed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
holloed Tense=Past lexicographic
hollow alternative lexicographic