hollohollowhollav.
/ˈhɒlə/ /ˈhɒlə/ 1.
a. intransitive. To cry out loud, to shout, vociferate; to halloo. Cf. holler v.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
talec1275
rounda1325
cryc1384
shoutc1385
hallowc1420
roupa1425
glaster1513
hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
holler1699
halloo1709
belvea1794
parliament1893
foghorn1918
rort1931
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxxiii. sig. M.iii Vocyferacyon halowynge cryeng.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F4 Why hollow to me and I will answere thee.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 122 'Tis madnesse to holloe in the ears of sleeping temptation.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. App. lxvi If one hollowed from highest Heaven aboven.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 19 Houting and ho-lo-ing, not only to the disturbance of that duty, but scorn of our Religion.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses vi. 286 As far as one that Holla's heard can be.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 6 I was going to hollow after them.
1736 H. Fielding Tumble-down Dick 14 Then to some hollow Tree she flies, To hollow, hoot, and howl.
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 24 They Holloed at Times, as they approached.
1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 3 The more the boys holla'd [1829 hallooed], and called out ‘Whip behind’.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iii. 125 Dont holla till you are out of the wood.
1885 G. C. Bompas Life F. Buckland 244 They all rushed after me shouting and holloing.
b. To call to the hounds in hunting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > signal [verb (intransitive)] > call to hounds
hollo1613
yoicka1828
yoax1828
seek1840
yoicks1840
to seek dead1850
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > of huntsmen
routa1425
hollo1613
soho1824
tally-ho1826
yoicka1828
yoax1828
yoicks1840
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 432 As we use here in England to hollow, whoope or shout at Houndes.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 75 Blowing and hollowing [1874 hallowing] until the Hounds are come in.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 63 He levels ev'ry Fence, Joins in the common Cry, and hollows loud.
1884 Punch 18 Oct. They hunted an' they hollo'd and they blew their horns also.
2. transitive.
a. With the thing shouted as object.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)]
remeOE
shoutc1374
hallow?a1400
shout?a1513
roup1513
bemea1522
yawl1542
toot1582
gawl1592
yellow1594
hollo1597
vociferate1599
bawl1600
halloo1602
acclaim1659
foghorn1886
honk1906
belt1971
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 50 + 3 As many lies As it may be hollowed in thy treacherous eare.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 221 And in his eare ile hollow Mortimer. View more context for this quotation
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 85 The Independents may cry and hollow it up to the Pygmies on the tops of their Towres.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother v. ii I will pursue thee And hollow Vengeance in thy guilty Ears.
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings xli. (R.) The hostlers..hollo to the three footmen..Who is it? who is it?
1855 R. Browning Transcendentalism 11 Speak prose and hollo it till Europe hears!
b. To call after (in hunting); to call or shout to.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > incite or pursue with shout > of huntsmen
routa1425
hollo1608
hoicks1762
whoo-whoop1812
soho1834
yoicks1840
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear viii. 46 He that first lights On him, hollow the other. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ix. 7 If I flye Martius, hollow me like a Hare. View more context for this quotation
1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 59 in Purple Island Th' unlucky Parrat, and death-boding Owl..Hollow their mates.
3. With adv. hollo away: to drive away by holloing; hollo in, off: to call in or off (dogs, etc.) by shouting; hollo out: to shout out.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > call or signal [verb (transitive)] > call to hounds
hollo in, off?1602
tow1793
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
talec1275
rounda1325
cryc1384
shoutc1385
hallowc1420
roupa1425
glaster1513
hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
holler1699
halloo1709
belvea1794
parliament1893
foghorn1918
rort1931
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > incite or pursue with shout
hallowc1369
hoyc1536
whoop1582
hue1590
hollo away?1602
vociferate1794
to bellow off1837
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by various types of noise
hoot1393
hiss1519
hollo away?1602
vociferate1794
trumpet1795
bark1829
?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 478 Hollowe in the hind doggs.
1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret ii. i. sig. D3v Let's to horse, And hollow in the troope.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N7 Six dayes he hollows so much breath away, That on the seaventh, he can nor preach, or pray.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 53 Such hounds are easier laid on, then either rated, or hollowed off.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 111 They'l sometimes mutter their words inwardly and then of a sudden hollow them out.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iii. 328 He hollowed out with great extasy, The ship, the ship.
Derivatives
ˈholloing n. (also attributive)
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > crying or shouting
cryc1380
reer?a1400
steveningc1440
vociferation1528
yowling1528
luring1547
holloing1600
bawling1629
vociferating1729
hallalloo1737
yo-yoing1836
vociferance1838
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 43 Leaue hollowing man, heere.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 235 No voice, crie, hollaing and houting..affrighted this kind of fish.
1767 P. Carteret Let. 11 Jan. in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) (1771) 60 21 With a great hollowing noise.
1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 11 365 [I] thought I should freeze, [and] set to Hollooing.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 61 War, after all, is not settled by hollaing, any more than horse-racing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
hollohollowint.n.
/ˈhɒlə/ A. int.
A call to excite attention, also a shout of encouragement or exultation: = holla int. 2, 3.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [interjection] > specific shout
heya1225
hoy1393
harrowa1500
hollo1589
wahahowec1604
halloo1671
hulloo?1706
holloa1769
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet C b Hollow there, giue me the beard I wore yesterday.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. i. 25 Hollo, what storme is this? View more context for this quotation
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 6 Hollow my Fancie, hollow, stay thou at home with me.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg i. 10 Hollow Hollow Boys, replied the staring Populace.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xiii. 40 Hollo! Ho!—the whole world's asleep!—bring out the horses.
1796 W. Scott William & Helen i Hollo! thou felon, follow here.
1815 Savoyard ii. iii Holo! there! (Enter Servant) Give me a goblet.
1885 W. A. Baillie-Hamilton Mr. Montenello I. 176 Hollo! Thornton, is that you?
B. n.attributive.1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. iii. 57 The deep-mouthed watch-dog, at hollow distance.
A shout of hollo! a loud shout; esp. a cry in hunting; cf. halloo n., hallow n.2
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun]
cryc1380
clamoura1382
hallowc1440
shout1487
spraich1513
routa1522
rear1567
outshout1579
shoutcry1582
hollo1598
hoot1600
hulloo?1706
halloo1707
holloa1757
bawl1792
holler1825
1598 R. Tofte Alba ii. sig. E8 But when th'acquainted Hollow he doth heare..He leaues his flight, and backward turnes againe.
1670 Caveat to Conventiclers 4 He was no sooner seated, but he gave a lowd Hollow through the Air.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 9 They set forth lowder Hollows than before, and wished me a good Journey.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 9 The Albatross..every day for food or play Came to the Marinere's hollo!
1823 Ld. Byron Age of Bronze xiii. 27 The hounds will gather to their huntsman's hollo.
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