"halloo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes",
          "text": "As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.",
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          "ref": "1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6",
          "text": "There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.",
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          "text": "1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101,\nOld JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:"
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          "ref": "1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, page 12",
          "text": "Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]",
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          "ref": "1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188",
          "text": "He played with Jacko like a child—rolled with him about the decks—hallooed him on to all manner of mischief—clapped his hands and cheered him in his performance, and then, in his own language, pronounced a high eulogy upon his achievements.",
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          "ref": "1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, in Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, page 29",
          "text": "It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, of hallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.",
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          "ref": "1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8",
          "text": "[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]",
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          "ref": "1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7",
          "text": "Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]",
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          "ref": "1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149",
          "text": "A lake allows an average father, walking slowly,\nTo circumvent it in an afternoon,\nAnd any healthy mother to halloo the children\nBack to her bedtime from their games across:",
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      "expansion": "Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "haloer"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French haloer",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "title": "imitative"
      },
      "expansion": "imitative",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "halloos",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hallooes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hallooing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hallooed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hallooed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "pres_3sg2": "hallooes"
      },
      "expansion": "halloo (third-person singular simple present halloos or hallooes, present participle hallooing, simple past and past participle hallooed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hollo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes",
          "text": "As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the \"Glen Carrig\"",
          "text": "As we ran, we hallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come",
          "text": "We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shout halloo."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "halloo",
          "#Interjection"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To shout halloo."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6",
          "text": "There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101,\nOld JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, page 12",
          "text": "Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188",
          "text": "He played with Jacko like a child—rolled with him about the decks—hallooed him on to all manner of mischief—clapped his hands and cheered him in his performance, and then, in his own language, pronounced a high eulogy upon his achievements.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, in Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, page 29",
          "text": "It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, of hallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "egg",
          "egg on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8",
          "text": "[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7",
          "text": "Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To chase with shouts or outcries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "outcries",
          "outcry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149",
          "text": "A lake allows an average father, walking slowly,\nTo circumvent it in an afternoon,\nAnd any healthy mother to halloo the children\nBack to her bedtime from their games across:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 300",
          "text": "She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To call or shout to; to hail."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To call or shout to; to hail."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shout (something)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To shout (something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/həˈluː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hæˈluː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "haloo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "halloo"
}