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单词 yo-heave-ho
释义

yo-heave-hov.

Brit. /ˌjəʊhiːvˈhəʊ/, U.S. /ˌjoʊˌhivˈhoʊ/
Forms: see yo-heave-ho int. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: yo-heave-ho int.
Etymology: < yo-heave-ho int. Compare earlier heave-ho vb. at heave ho int. and n. Derivatives.
Now rare.
intransitive. Chiefly in nautical contexts: to cry or exclaim ‘yo-heave-ho’, esp. while hauling a rope or carrying out some other strenuous, rhythmically repetitive task. Later also (humorous): to behave like a sailor; to go to sea. Cf. yo-heave-ho int.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)] > specific exclamations
ho1377
heave hoa1400
howc1450
whew1765
oh-oh1833
oh1837
yo-heave-ho1857
phew1858
ahem1876
oh-my1893
hooch1896
yah1904
ooh1930
ooh-la-la1950
ooh-ooh1960
1857 Blackwood’s Edinb. Mag. Apr. 397 He..called upon his mariners To yo, heave, yo!
1892 R. Johnson End of Rainbow viii. 104 Then all took hold of one of the locomotives and yo-heave-hoed at it, but they could not tip it.
1911 J. C. Hutcheson Ghost Ship (2010) 101 The skipper..proceeded to haul us up alongside without further delay, tugging away at the tar rope I had hitched on, yo-heave-hoing and hurrahing!
1915 Cosmopolitan May 713 He had his Steamer-Shawl and the Phrase-Book and the Letters of Introduction all packed, and was ready to yo-heave-ho, when the Blow-Off came.

Derivatives

yo-heave-ˈhoing n.
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1859 Welcome Guest 12 Feb. 93/2 A great many bells ring: there is much shouting, much ‘Yo-heave-hoing,’ in German, and the three travellers are at Mayence.
1872 J. R. Lowell Milton in Wks. (1890) IV. 102 He offers a striking contrast with Wordsworth, who has to go through with a great deal of yo-heave-ohing before he gets under way.
1933 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 6 Aug. 9/2 Best to keep out of the way of the three old tars who will do most of the yo-heave-hoing.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yo-heave-hoint.n.

Brit. /ˌjəʊhiːvˈhəʊ/, U.S. /ˌjoʊˌhivˈhoʊ/
Forms:

α. 1700s– yo-heave-ho, 1800s– yo heave ho, 1900s– yeo heave ho, 1900s– yeo, heave ho, 1900s– yeo-heave-ho, 1900s– yo-heave ho, 1900s– yoheave ho.

β. 1800s yeo-heave-yeo, 1800s yo-heave yo, 1800s yoheave-yo, 1800s– yo heave yo, 1800s– yo, heave yo, 1800s– yo, heave, yo, 1800s– yo-heave-yo.

γ. 1800s yeo-heave-o', 1800s yo, heave oh, 1800s yo, heave, o, 1800s yo, heave, oh, 1800s yo heave-o, 1800s yo, heave-o, 1800s– yo heave o, 1800s– yo heave oh, 1800s– yo! heave oh, 1800s– yo-heave-o, 1800s– yo-heave-oh, 1900s– yo! heave, oh, 1900s– yo heave-oh, 1900s– yo, heave-oh.

Also with capital initial in any element.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yo int., heave ho int. and n.
Etymology: < yo int. + heave ho int. and n. Compare earlier yo-ho int.In β. forms with alteration of the final syllable after the first element. With the γ. forms compare oh int., O int.
A. int.
An exclamation typically occurring in chants or songs formerly used by sailors when hauling ropes or performing other strenuous, rhythmically repetitive tasks, to help regulate the timing of the action; (hence) as an exclamation considered typical of seafarers. Cf. yo-ho int., heave ho int. and n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [interjection] > specific call or hail
heya1225
halec1300
hillaa1400
what hoc1405
hoc1430
oyeza1450
heh1475
hi?c1475
oy1488
whata1556
holla1598
sola1598
hillo1603
hallow1674
woo-hoo1697
hip1735
yo-ho1748
high1760
yo-heave-ho1790
holla ho!1796
whoo-ee1811
hello1826
tit1827
hullo1857
ahoy1885
yoo-hoo1924
hi-de-hi1941
1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs II. 7 To the windlass let us go, With yo heave ho!
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xv. 134 Yo heave ho! Heave and pawl! Heave hearty ho!
1864 Lancaster Gaz. 3 Dec. ‘Jack Junk’, a sailor, with the song of ‘Yo heave Ho’.
1906 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 19 26 If the work is a trifle less arduous, he may, instead, cry, ‘Yo—heave—ho’.
1998 Classical Q. 48 49 All they knew was to call for their grub and shout ‘Yo heave ho!’.
B. n.
A cry or exclamation of ‘yo-heave-ho’, or a variant of this.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations
O?c1225
heyc1400
hoc1405
whoopc1450
oha1535
ooh1602
whowb1602
phew1613
hogmanay1692
ah1712
yo-hope1724
whew1751
whoo1763
yah1812
yo-heave-ho1813
yoicks1817
yo-he-ho1827
yo1830
boo1833
yoick1854
hot-cha-cha1932
ooh-la-la1952
ooh-ah1957
eina1971
eish2005
1813 J. K. Paulding Lay of Sc. Fiddle Introd. 18 And now and then the yo, heave O Borne on the breeze, all sad and slow.
1825 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 29 Jan. The responsive ‘Yo-heave yo’s’ of those who were weighing their anchors.
1883 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor v Our Anchor soon must change the lay of merry craftsmen here, For the Yeo-heave-o', and the Heave-away, and the sighing seaman's cheer.
1910 Times 15 Jan. 11/2 The real sea-chanty will drive out the ‘Yo-heave-ho’ of the theatre sailor.
1999 Times 2 July 52/5 It continued to sprinkle lightly at annoying intervals..enough to get those cover boys stampeding onto court, and hauling sea-green plastic with a yo-heave-ho.
2001 B. Wiltshire in S. K. Toombs Handbk. Phenomenology & Med. 224 The sailors' yo-heave-o is more sounds than words.

Compounds

yo-heave-ho theory n. = yo-he-ho theory n. at yo-he-ho n. Compounds.
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1887 Oxf. Rev. 18 May 216/1 The Yo-heave-ho theory is purely conjectural.
1902 H. H. Bawden Syllabus Psychol. xvi. 81 The synergastic, sympathetic or yo-heave-ho theory, that language originated as the expression of common work.
2014 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 17 July The ‘Bow-wow’, ‘Ding-dong’ and ‘Yo-heave-ho’ theories of language evolution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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