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war-whoop|ˈwɔːhuːp, -hwuːp|
a. The cry or yell of American Indians and other peoples on rushing into battle.
1739W. Stephens Jrnl. 21 Dec. in Colonial Rec. Georgia (1906) IV. 474 In marching, our Indians set up the war whoop. 1761Foote Liar i. Wks. 1799 I. 286 Permit him, Madam, just to give you..a short specimen of their warhoop. 1763W. Roberts First Discov. Florida 6 Horrible bellowings and clamours, not unlike the war-hoop of the Indians of the Six Nations. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 250 Their mortal crime consisted in sounding the war-whoop, and [etc.]. Ibid. 394 He put up the shrill war whoo whoop, as his last salute. 1791J. Long Voy. Indian Interpr. 21 The Savages..setting up the war-hoop, fell upon the enemy. 1837R. M. Bird Nick of the Woods I. 91 ‘A fight!’ replied Captain Stackpole, uttering a war-whoop. 1850J. B. Clutterbuck Pt. Phillip in 1849, 59 When the favorable opportunity for attack has arrived, the war-whoop resounds through hill and dale. 1865Parkman Pioneers of France vi. (1876) 76 The war-whoop rose, and a tempest of stone-headed arrows clattered against the breastplates of the French. 1875Higginson Hist. United States xvi. 147 The children lay awake afterwards, listening for the Indian's war-whoop.
b. transf. and fig.
1798Coleridge Fears in Solit. 89 Secure from actual warfare, we have loved To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war! 1807Byron Let. to Miss Pigot 11 Aug., My nice mamma would..raise the accustomed maternal warwhoop. 1817Moore Lalla Rookh, Fire-worshippers iii. 116 But hark!—that war-whoop on the deck. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. 92 In the early speeches..the name of the unhappy favourite no longer served as the war-whoop of a party. 1851Longfellow Life (1891) II. 212 If they are not forthcoming, I shall raise such a war-whoop that it will frighten him. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer xv, Then they set up a war-whoop of applause, and said it was ‘splendid!’ |