Hollo

Origin

See halloo, and compare holla.

Full definition of hollo

Interjection

1. Hey, hello
• 1609, , A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. Chapter Everie Woman In Her Humor, And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.
• 1922, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories Chapter , 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!

Noun

1. A cry of "hollo"
• 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems Chapter Rime of the Ancient Mariner, And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!
• 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe Chapter , "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."
• 1910, W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts Chapter , The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.

Verb

1. To cry "hollo"
• 1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas Chapter , And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.
• 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning Chapter , Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.