halloa
English edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
halloa
- A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.
- Halloa! what's this?
- 1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man[1]:
- "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
- 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
- "Halloa! Stop there!" he shouted, holding his bicycle to block our road.
Verb edit
halloa (third-person singular simple present halloas, present participle halloaing, simple past and past participle halloaed)
- (intransitive) To utter an exclamation of "halloa".