Hollo

Pronunciation varies by accent · interjection

Meaning

(dated) Hey, hello.

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated) Hey, hello
2. (UK, dated) hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
3. A cry of "hollo"
4. To cry "hollo"

Example Sentences

And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.

Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!

‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.

And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!

"I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."

The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.

And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.

Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.

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Word Forms

• holler
• holla
• holloa
• hollow
• hulloa
• hollos
• holloes
• holloing
• holloed

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