Definition of Hollooing

1. holloo [v] - See also: holloo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hollooing

hollidams
hollied
holliers
hollies
hollingworthite
hollo
holloa
holloaed
holloaing
holloas
holloed
holloes
holloing
holloo
hollooed
hollooing (current term)
holloos
hollos
hollow
hollow-back
hollow-eyed
hollow-hearted
hollow-horned
hollow back
hollow bone
hollow fibre reactor
hollow leg
hollow legs
hollow out
hollow point

Literary usage of Hollooing

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

1. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"A poor German Prince was found one day in the hall at in a state bordering on distraction, with a footman on each side of him hollooing in his ears. ..."

2. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"A poor German Prince was found one day in the hall at in a state bordering on distraction, with a footman on each side of him hollooing in his ears. ..."

3. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649 by John Winthrop, James Kendall Hosmer (1908)
"... the means they could to disturb the exercise, by hooting and hollooing, but in their return they were set upon by the Turks and divers of them killed. ..."

4. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"... Crowds of Rabble in the Streets, hollooing and Shouting him along, calling him the Defender of the Catholick Church, the Champion of their Holy Religion ..."

5. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... from the Dux of the highest to the Dunce of the lowest form, is sure to bring the whole about your ears, buzzing, hollooing, yelping, abusing, ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... and more open, than a barn—the servants inhabit outhouses, and there being no bells, they use no other mode of calling them but by hollooing at the very ..."

7. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1916)
"... but my left leg would not Carry my weight until I could put the right Leg over, & Could not get on, thought I should freeze, set to hollooing a Little ..."

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