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Hollo

verb

(past & past part. holloed; pres. part. holloing)

Encourage somebody by crying hollo.

Cry hollo.

Utter a sudden loud cry. Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell. "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"

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"Hollo" Quotes from Famous Books

... could not help feeling rather ashamed before these boys. If one of that sort of fellows' fathers passed a crowd of boys, they would not take any notice of their boys; but if Pony's father came along, he would very likely say, "Well, Pony!" or something like that, and then all the fellows would hollo, "Well, Pony! Well, Pony!" and make fun of his father, when he got past, and walk like him, or something, so that Pony would be so mad he would hardly know what to do. He hated to ask his father not to speak to ...

— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells

... everybody in the room started in great astonishment at this extraordinary outburst. With a sharp "Hollo!" Twiddel turned in his seat, to see the clergyman standing over him with a look of the keenest inquiry ...

— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston

... the house pursued by his son) Hollo! Hollo! O neighbours, and kinsfolk, and fellow-tribesmen, defend me, by all means, who am being beaten! Ah me, unhappy man, for my head and jaw! Wretch! Do you beat ...

— The Clouds • Aristophanes

Words linked to "Hollo" : outcry, shriek, cry out, skreak, pipe up, yaup, hurrah, skreigh, let out, call out, yawl, squawk, whoop, pipe, screech, exclaim, howl, utter, let loose, encourage, vociferation, shrill, halloo, emit, shout out, ululate, wail, screak