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▪ I. hurrah, hurray, int. and n.|hʊˈrɑː, həˈrɑː, hʊˈreɪ, həˈreɪ|
Also 7– hurra, 8 hurrea, whurra, 9 hooray, (hooroar), ‖ hourra.
[A later substitute for huzza (not in Johnson, Ash, Walker; in Todd 1818), perh. merely due to onomatopœic modification, but possibly influenced by some foreign shouts: cf. Sw., Da., LG. hurra!, Du. hoera!, Russ. urá! whence F. houra; F. hourra is from Eng. MHG. had hurr, hurrâ, as interjections representing rapid whirring motion (cf. hurren to rush), whence also a shout used in chasing. According to Moriz Heyne in Grimm, hurrah was the battle-cry of the Prussian soldiers in the War of Liberation (1812–13), and has since been a favourite cry of soldiers and sailors, and of exultation. In English the form hurrah is literary and dignified; hooray is usual in popular acclamation.]
A. int. A shout expressive of approbation, encouragement, or exultation; used esp. as a ‘cheer’ at public assemblies or the like.
1716Addison Drummer v. i, Coach. The same good man that ever he was. Gard. Whurra. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. i. ii, Hurrea, hurrea, bravo! 1845Hirst Com. Mammoth etc. 89 Hurrah for brown Autumn! hurrah! hurrah! 1855Thackeray Rose & Ring xiv, Captain Hedzoff flung up his helmet, and cried, ‘Hurray! Hurray! Long live King Giglio!’ 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. xi, ‘Hooroar!’ cried the man. 1888J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge I. xxii, There goes the gong..Hooray!
B. n.
1. A name for this shout.
1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 301 Our Capt. ordered all his Guns to fire; at which they all of them (which were about twenty) fil'd the very Heavens with Hurras and Shouts. 1694in Wood Life 1 Nov. (O.H.S.) III. 472 The prisoners in Lancashire are discharg'd..a great hurray followed. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xxiii, Wild jubilee and loud hurra Pursued him on his venturous way. 1841Macaulay Ess., W. Hastings (1887) 636 An European warrior who rushes on a battery of cannon with a loud hurrah. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Courage Wks. (Bohn) III. 106 They can do the hurras, the placarding, the flags—and the voting, if it is a fair day.
‖2. Representing F. houra, Russian urá: The shout of attack of the Cossacks; whence, by extension, an attack.
[1827Scott Napoleon V. 383 Platow with his Cossacks made a charge, or, in their phrase, a hourra, upon the French. Ibid. lxxv. Wks. 1870 XV. 113 The enemy had made a hourra upon Marmont.] 1841Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) VI. 77 The best way they have of making a ‘hurra’ upon their enemies. Ibid. 375, I think we could get up such a ‘hurrah’ of water-borne Cossacks.
3. hurrah's nest: a confused or disorderly mass; a state of confusion or disorder. U.S.
1829Longfellow in Life (1891) I. 164 A queer looking Dutchman, with a head like a ‘hurra's nest’. 1840R. H. Dana Two Years bef. Mast ii, Everything was pitched about in grand confusion. There was a complete hurrah's nest. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Hurra's Nest, a state of confusion. A woman's word. 1889S. W. Mitchell in Century Mag. Aug. 503/1 The old lumberman pointed..to a ‘hurrah's nest’ (a mass of leaves left by a freshet in the crotch of the divergent branches of a bush) half-way up the slope—on it was coiled a large rattlesnake.
4. attrib. or adj. in various slang or colloq. uses = shouting hurrah, uproarious, blindly enthusiastic; joyous, ‘glad’.
1835Franklin Repos. (Chambersburg, Pa.) 2 June 2/3 The New York delegation cared nothing for principles! To them..the men who could secure for the ticket and for Martin Van Buren the hurra boys was every thing! 1836Congress. Globe 17 Feb., App. 115 [Some have declared] that his election had been brought about by the ‘hurrah boys’, and those who knew just enough to shout ‘hurrah for Jackson!’ 1903N.Y. Even. Post. 30 Oct. 16 Added to this solid element is the hurrah crowd whose enthusiasm has a venal tone. 1907N. Munro Daft Days xii. 102 ‘And what are you doing with your hurrah clothes on?’ ‘I like to put on my Sunday clothes when I'm writing Charles.’ 1909Daily Chron. 20 July 1/2 ‘Hurrah-boats’, as the bluejacket aptly calls excursion steamers. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 124 Hurrah boats, a Navy term for the pleasure steamers of touring trippers that go round the Fleet at Naval Reviews, usually cheering as they pass ships. 1926Flynn's 16 Jan. 640/1, I had many a pal among th' touts and hurrah boys. 1928Daily Express 4 Dec. 10/3 ‘Hurrah boys’ are college students. 1964N. Freeling Double-Barrel v. 176 We seem to have got quite a hurrah letter from the burgomaster. And there was a hint that I may be promoted.
▪ II. huˈrrah, huˈrray, v.
[f. prec.]
1. intr. To shout ‘hurrah!’
1798Beresford in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 443 Lord Edward heard the noise and the mob hurraying. 1868Kinglake Crimea (1877) III. i. 252 The Grenadiers were hurrahing on their left. 1883Besant All in Gard. Fair ii. i, The people would crowd to look upon him and to hooray.
2. trans. To receive or encourage with shouts of ‘hurrah!’; to ‘cheer’, as at a public gathering.
1832J. W. Croker in Diary 12 May (1884), He had been hurrahed by the mob. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 592 He stood upon an old wall, and hurrahed the people on.
Hence huˈrrahing, huˈrraying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1813L. Hunt in Examiner 26 Apr. 257/2 Such a man is..fond of hurrayings and shoutings. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. iv, Through hurrahing streets. 1878H. Smart Play or Pay xi. (ed. 3) 241 If there is no hurrahing, there is much jubilation. |