what ho
English edit
Interjection edit
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, dated) An exclamation of greeting, summons, or surprise.
- 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion:
- ‘What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 26:
- ‘What ho!... Treasons, strategems and spoils.’
What ho, Frobisher!