hollo

hollointj

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  datedHey, hello

  • 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!
• 2

  datedhello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)

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

hollonoun

• 1

  A cry of "hollo"

  • 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."

holloverb

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  To cry "hollo"

  • 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.