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yoho, int.|jəˈhəʊ|
Also as two words, or with hyphen; also 8 yoa hoa, yoe-hoe, 9 yeo-ho, -hoy, ye(e) ho.
[See yo int., ho int.1 and int.3.]
An exclamation used to call attention: orig. in nautical use, hence generally; also sometimes used like yo-heave-ho, q.v.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) 11, Hola-ho, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe. Ibid. s.v. O d'en haut!, Yoa⁓hoe, aloft there! 1803Dibdin Songs III. 47 He can pull away, Cast off, belay, Aloft, alow, Avast, yo ho! 1825L. Hunt Redi's Bacchus in Tuscany 153 The yeo-hoys on board a ship. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle ii, Yo ho, my young un! whence and whither bound, my hearty? 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxvi, Yoho, past hedges... Yoho, past donkey-chaises... Yoho, down the pebbly dip... Yoho! Yoho! 1849Lever Con Cregan xiii, The very voices that ye-hoed..made delicious music to my ear. Ibid. xviii, The pleasant ye-ho! of the sailors. a1880Weatherly Song, Nancy Lee, The sailor's wife the sailor's star shall be, Yeo ho! we go across the sea. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. i, Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
attrib.1887Academy 7 May 317/3 The despised bow-wow theory [bow-wow 2 b] would, after all, have something in it. On the analogy of that famous nickname, one may, perhaps, venture to suggest the yo-ho theory as a convenient appellation for Noiré's view; yo-ho being..the clamor concomitans of sailors engaged in working a capstan. 1888Max Müller Nat. Relig. xiv. (1889) 373 The Pooh-pooh theory, the Bow-wow theory, and the Yo-heho theory, completely fail to explain..how conceptual words arose.
Hence yoˈho v., intr. to shout ‘yoho!’ (whence yoˈhoing vbl. n.); yoˈhoic a., nonce-wd. after echoic (cf. quot. 1887 above).
1772Gentl. Mag. Apr. 191/1 The passengers bawling, the sailors yo-ho-ing. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xv, After two or three hours of constant labour at the windlass, heaving and ‘Yo-ho!’-ing with all our might, we brought up an anchor. 1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-bk. vii, Seamen are singing and yeehoing on board. 1888Henley Bk. Verses 128 Hark! the echoes are yeo-hoing Valiantly from vale and hill! 1888Max Müller Nat. Relig. viii. (1889) 211 The Yo-heoic theory [of language]. 1901Besant Lady of Lynn viii, The bargemen brought their..craft alongside with many loud-sounding oaths and the yohoing without which they can do nothing. |