holloaint.n.v.
/hɒˈləʊ/ A. int.
(See quots.)
ΘΠ
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
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 30 So I answer'd him, Ho lo.]
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Holloa,..an exclamation of answer, to any person, who calls to another to ask some question, or to give a particular order... The master..calls, Main-top, hoay! To which they answer, Holloa!
1866 Craven Meg's Diversion ii. 40 Holloa! Meg, frolick~some Meg, here!
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Holloa, or holla, an answer to any person calling from a distance, to show they hear.
1883 M. Oliphant Ladies Lindores I. 247 ‘Holloa!’ he cried, ‘Gone, are they!’
B. n.
A shout of ‘holloa!’
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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
1757 E. Long Anti-Gallican xix. 199 They answered with a general Holloa.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 112 It was an uncommon bad night for running by holloas.
C. v.
To call ‘holloa!’; to shout so as to call attention, express surprise, etc.
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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
1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding ⁋173 Then would the text cry..as if it did holloa after me.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxiv. 287 He holloaed out to the grooms.
1885 Duke of Beaufort & M. Morris Hunting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 144 The result of holloaing immediately a fox has crossed a ride often is to make him pop back again.
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