See hooraw in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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Johnstone, Blood of Eagles, →ISBN:", "text": "Besides, some of those hooraws will know you on sight.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 17, 24 ] ], "ref": "2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:", "text": "\"I never knew no hooraws before, Long Man,\" said Clint. \"Reckon I can get used to you, though.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 19, 25 ] ], "ref": "2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:", "text": "Well, I might be a hooraw, but I didn't creep out of no patch of skunk cabbage.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An unsophisticated person." ], "id": "en-hooraw-en-noun-vHuJTa1-", "links": [ [ "unsophisticated", "unsophisticated" ] ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 95, 101 ] ], "ref": "1978, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 2, page 1501:", "text": "In fact, when you see all these things happening, Mr. Speaker, when you listen to that kind of hooraw — coming from the other side — it is a wonderful example of the awful things that can happen when cousins marry.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 162, 168 ] ], "ref": "2006, Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, →ISBN, page 785:", "text": "After unleashing a tirade of profanity: Lawrence Will recorded his response as: “Dag-nabbit, I can't even set foot on the blasphemous property to see what in the hooraw I've bought!”", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 204, 210 ] ], "ref": "2011, Poul Anderson, The Trouble Twisters, →ISBN:", "text": "So the Consecrates are cocked and primed to go off, in an explosion of reinterpretations, reformations, counter-reformations, revelations, new doctrines, fundamentalist reactions, and every other kind of hooraw we humans have been through.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A nonce word." ], "id": "en-hooraw-en-noun-A-0Em81V", "links": [ [ "nonce word", "nonce word" ] ] } ], "word": "hooraw" } { "forms": [ { "form": "hooraws", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hoorawing", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "hoorawed", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "hoorawed", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "hooraw (third-person singular simple present hooraws, present participle hoorawing, simple past and past participle hoorawed)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 14, 22 ] ], "ref": "2007, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Dwarf's Darling, →ISBN:", "text": "As the driver hoorawed the horses and the three other passengers grabbed the hand straps for support, Friendly ran up to Longarm's window, looking harried.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 78, 86 ] ], "ref": "2008, Lauran Paine, Feud on the Mesa, →ISBN, page 216:", "text": "He was in the act of dismounting when someone up ahead through the underbrush hoorawed a loose horse.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 111, 117 ] ], "ref": "2011, Ralph Compton, Joseph A. 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Harrison, The Man who Made Nasby: David Ross Locke, page 73:", "text": "I wuz permitted 2 rize after hoorawing for Duglis.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 14, 22 ] ], "ref": "2012, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt, →ISBN:", "text": "Seems to me I hoorawed around for a while an' poured me a snort o' redeye to celebrate, but then I got to thinkin'.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To loudly and publicly celebrate or express support for someone or something." ], "id": "en-hooraw-en-verb-0Usb-O41" }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 18, 26 ] ], "ref": "2011, Brian Garfield, Wild Times:", "text": "Hey, you just got hoorawed, boy, you got your leg pulled.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 95, 101 ] ], "ref": "2015, James W. Bennett, Donald Raycraft, Old Hoss: A Fictional Baseball Biography of Charles Radbourn, →ISBN:", "text": "I know all about the limit, but I figure a man as smart and important as you can find a way to hooraw the deal so the other owners won't know.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 32, 40 ] ], "ref": "2016, Jake Jacobson, Alaska Flying: Surviving Incidents & Accidents, →ISBN:", "text": "I wasn't going to let myself be hoorawed by any avaricious bush mechanic, especially one who looked like he wasn't busy, as this one did.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To fool; to trick." ], "id": "en-hooraw-en-verb-4dfHm0lV", "links": [ [ "fool", "fool" ], [ "trick", "trick" ] ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 167, 175 ] ], "ref": "1897, Thomas Nelson Page, Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia, page 21:", "text": "Yo' see, it happen so : Marse Chan he wuz a- speakin' down at de Deep Creek Tavern, an' he kind o' got de bes' of ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin. All de white folks laughed an' hoorawed, an' ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin -- My Lawd! I t'ought he'd 'a' bu'st, he was so mad.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 184, 190 ] ], "ref": "2010, Howard Frank Mosher, Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel, →ISBN, page 214:", "text": "She told Morgan, whose face was still badly swollen and bruised, that he cut a grand handsome figure, and he wondered how, in her female scheme of things, it was acceptable for her to hooraw his appearance when he was not allowed to poke innocent fun at hers.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 39, 45 ] ], "ref": "2011, Elmer Kelton, Dark Thicket, →ISBN:", "text": "And that grinnin' Banty Tillotson will hooraw me for a week.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To make fun of." ], "id": "en-hooraw-en-verb-r642HTKi", "links": [ [ "make fun of", "make fun of" ] ] } ], "word": "hooraw" }
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Hooraw for the Institoot!\" shout a hundred voices.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Used to express joy, excitement, amusement, or approval; hooray." ], "links": [ [ "joy", "joy#English" ], [ "excitement", "excitement#English" ], [ "amusement", "amusement#English" ], [ "approval", "approval#English" ], [ "hooray", "hooray#Interjection" ] ] } ], "word": "hooraw" } { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English interjections", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "forms": [ { "form": "hooraws", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "hooraw (plural hooraws)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 37, 44 ] ], "ref": "1889 January-June, Martin J. 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Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:", "text": "\"I never knew no hooraws before, Long Man,\" said Clint. \"Reckon I can get used to you, though.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 19, 25 ] ], "ref": "2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:", "text": "Well, I might be a hooraw, but I didn't creep out of no patch of skunk cabbage.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An unsophisticated person." ], "links": [ [ "unsophisticated", "unsophisticated" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 95, 101 ] ], "ref": "1978, Canada. Parliament. 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