Definition of Hurraying

1. Verb. (present participle of hurray) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hurraying

1. hurray [v] - See also: hurray

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurraying

huron-iroquous
huronian
hurons
hurple
hurr
hurra
hurraed
hurrah
hurrahed
hurrahing
hurrahs
hurraing
hurras
hurray
hurrayed
hurraying (current term)
hurrays
hurred
hurricane
hurricane bow
hurricane bows
hurricane deck
hurricane lamp
hurricane lantern
hurricane roof
hurricanelike
hurricanes
hurricano
hurricanoes
hurricanos

Literary usage of Hurraying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Selection from the Writings of Viscount Strangford on Political by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, Emily Anne (Beaufort) Smythe Strangford (1869)
"Look there,' he said, on the first day of his visit, turning towards a young street ragamuffin in the Strand, cheering and hurraying with all his might, ..."

2. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"... as the enemy fell back after his last charge, that the Captain, hurraying and rushing down the hill waving his sword, received a shot and fell dead. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"In drinking toasts, &c., it has always been the habit, I believe, to express approbation by noise of some sort, hip-hip-hurraying, clinking glasses, ..."

4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"The hurraying brought out the old Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil. ..."

5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"When there has been a war, and stout old Sandy Sansculotte returns home from India or the Crimea, what a bagpiping, shouting, hurraying, ..."

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