yoo-hooint.n.
/ˈjuːhuː/, /ˌjuːˈhuː/, U.S. /ˈjuˌhu/ A call made to attract attention, esp. to one's arrival or presence; also as 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
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > call > call or calling to attract attention
hailingc1275
heyc1400
hoc1405
sohoa1572
holla1593
hoy1652
halloo1707
hail1811
hillo1823
yo-hoing1840
halloa1898
yoo-hoo1924
yoohooing1954
1924 Dial. Notes 5 280 Yoo-hoo (call).
1926 New Yorker 2 Jan. 18/3 Yoo-hoo! When did your school let out?
1937 M. Allingham Case of Late Pig vii. 49 He opened the breakfast-room door. ‘Yoo-hoo!’ said someone inside.
1946 A. Marshall in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 316 There was a faint ‘yoo-hoo!’ from behind us. We all turned.
1959 L. Lee Cider with Rosie 150 I'm coming—yoo-hoo! Just mislaid my gloves.
1959 A. Wesker Roots i. 16 Girl's Voice (off): Yoo-hoo! Any one home?
1970 J. Updike Bech: a Book 182 Mildred..waved an alabaster, muscular arm: ‘Yoo-hoo, Henry, over here.’
1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 62 Yoo Hoo up there! Someone will be up to give you a hand with the rest of those things.
1983 ‘J. Gash’ Sleepers of Erin viii. 61 Patrick..trilled a roguish yoo~hoo.
Derivatives
ˈyoohoo v. (also ˈyoo-hoo) (intransitive and transitive) to call ‘yoo-hoo!’ (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)] > call
ascrya1375
cryc1420
hail1563
to call out1565
oncrya1600
sing1813
evocate1834
shout1914
yoohoo1948
loud-hail1964
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > call > to attract attention > specific
ho1377
to squeak beef1699
hallo1781
oy1816
cooee1827
hoy1836
yoohoo1948
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. iii. 14 He..yoohooed for a chair.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 88 Then they yoohooed us.
1978 ‘J. Gash’ Gold from Gemini iii. 24 Patrick yoo-hooed me over to his place.
1982 ‘J. Gash’ Firefly Gadroon xiii. 122 Margaret blew a kiss... Patrick yoohooed.
ˈyoohooing n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > call > call or calling to attract attention
hailingc1275
heyc1400
hoc1405
sohoa1572
holla1593
hoy1652
halloo1707
hail1811
hillo1823
yo-hoing1840
halloa1898
yoo-hoo1924
yoohooing1954
1954 Partisan Rev. Nov. 599 Life, despite their frantic yoohooing, had passed them by.
1969 ‘E. Lathen’ When in Greece xxii. 231 Leaving the ladies to their yoohooing, the three men followed the officer's directions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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