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▪ I. huzza, int. and n.|hʌˈzɑː, hʊˈzɑː|
Also 6–8 hussa, 7 hussaw, 7– huzzah, huzzay |hʌˈzeɪ|.
[c gray][app. a mere exclamation, the first syllable being a preparation for, and a means of securing simultaneous utterance of the final (ɑː[/c]).
It is mentioned by many 17–18th c. writers as being originally a sailor's cheer or salute: ‘It was derived from the marine and the shouts the seamen make when friends come aboard or go off’ (North Exam. (1740) 617). It may therefore be the same as heisau! hissa! originally hauling or hoisting cries: see heeze v. quot. 1549 and hissa. (German has also ˈhussa as a cry of hunting and pursuit, and, subsequently, of exultation.)]
A. int. A shout of exultation, encouragement, or applause; a cheer uttered by a number in unison; a hurrah.
1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iii. 33 Oh see (says Night) these Rogues sing Huzza! proud Of sure success, under my favouring Shroud. 1706Farquhar Recruit. Officer i. i, Huzza then! huzza for the queen, and the honour of Shropshire! 1830C. Wordsworth Jrnl. in Overton Life (1888) 50 Winchester beat Eton by sixty runs, huzza. 1855Thackeray Rose & Ring xix, Everybody was shouting, ‘Huzzay! huzzay!.. Long live the King and Queen!’
B. n. The shout of huzza; a shout of exultation or applause; a hurrah.
1573G. Harvey Scholar's Love in Letter-bk. (Camden) 115 Whattes now..My youthfulliste hollaes, hussaes, and sahoes, But wretchid allasses, godhelpes, and woes? 1665Evelyn Diary 1 July, Went on board the Prince..she had 700 men. They made a great huzza or shout at our approch, 3 times. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1372/4 At his passing over the Bridge, the Castle saluted him with five great Guns, and closed the farewel with three Hussaws, Seamen like. 1686S. Sewall Diary 25 Sept., Queen's birth⁓day..made a great fire in the evening, many hussas. 1688Wood Life 16 Dec. (O.H.S.) III. 289 Followed with a numerous company, with loud huzzaies. 1712W. Rogers Voy. 220 We saluted each of the other Ships with 3 Huzzas from on board her. 1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 256 One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. 1838Hist. Rec. 2nd Regt. Foot 65 The battalion advanced with a British Huzza, and the enemy abandoned the redoubt and fled. 1858Thackeray Virgin. xxxix, The chaplain slapped down his cards with a huzzay. 1880E. Kirke Garfield 16 The wild huzza of victory.
†b. allusively. One given to noisy or riotous conduct: a rake, a gallant. Also huzza-woman.
1660–73Wycherley Gentl. Dancing-Mast. i. ii, We are for the brisk huzzas of seventeen or eighteen. Ibid., Tearing midnight ramblers, or huzza-women.
c. huzza-men, men hired to shout ‘huzza’.
1715Flying Post 27 Jan., For scores of huzza-men..{pstlg}40.
▪ II. huzza, v.|hʌˈzɑː, hʊˈzɑː|
Also 9 huzzah, huzzay |hʌˈzeɪ|.
[f. huzza int.]
1. intr. To shout huzza. Constr. at, for.
1683Tryon Way to Health 510 They are Carouzing and Huzzaing like mad Devils with their roaring Companions. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. iv. 42 They drink a Health—Huzzah—to the Prosperity of the Highflown..Ceremony-Monger. 1768Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 228 He immediately sets fire to it, huzzas at the explosion. 1802Home Hist. Reb. v, The populace..who huzza for any thing that brings them together, huzzaed. a1845Hood Pub. Dinner ii, Hip, hip! and huzzaing, And singing and saying. 1856G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Cov. ix, The rustics huzzaed for their landlord. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Ribbons, I huzzay respectfully when they pass in procession.
2. trans. To acclaim with huzzas.
1688in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 381 They huzza'd and humm'd them in great abundance. 1710Steele Tatler No. 193 ⁋5, I..have yet Lungs enough to huzza their Victories. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 339 Some Persons were so impudent (to speak in the canting phrase) as to huzza him. 1813Scott Rokeby vi. xxvi, The brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of Fortune's wheel. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. v. 49 The way of the world, which huzzays all prosperity.
Hence huˈzzaing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; huˈzzaer, one who shouts huzza.
1708W. King Cookery (R.), A caldron of fat beef and stoop of ale On the huzzaing mob shall more prevail. a1734North Exam. iii. viii. §44 (1740) 617 At merry Meetings, good Fellowship in Way of Healths, run into some Extravagance and Noise, as that which they called Huzzaing, an Usage then at its Perfection. 1805Naval Chron. XIV. 384 The huzzaing multitude. 1838Tait's Mag. V. 426 Shouters, or singers, or huzzaers. 1862Gen. P. Thompson in Bradford Advertiser 15 Feb. 6/1 A vulgar huzzaer in the mob. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. x. viii. (1872) III. 298 ‘These huzzahings only tell me what I have lost!’ said the new King. |