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Definition of Hoorayed
1. hooray [v] - See also: hooray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoorayed
Literary usage of Hoorayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... CONFOUND YOU I " Upon this truly cheering announcement, the House hoorayed.
Londoners have now some prospect of being in the way to obtain, ..."
2. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1898)
"Lady Henry, Anna Gordon and I have "hoorayed" over your laurels and said, "Bless
her; she is not only our Susan but everybody's." Lady Henry says you have ..."
3. One Hundred Narrative Poems edited by George E. Teter (1918)
"Us boys hoorayed, and me and every noodle Yelled Yankee Doodle! " 'My, how we
haw'd and gee'd the big ox-sledges Haulin' her long trunk through the hemlock ..."
4. "The Dark People": Russia's Crisis by Ernest Poole (1918)
"Most of them acted simply like a lot of boys turned loose. They talked and argued
and sang songs; they hoorayed for the great revolution and got food ..."
5. Songs and Stories from Tennessee by John Trotwood Moore (1902)
"De people all clap dair han's, an' hoorayed ergin, an' Marse Ed jogged on back
up de stretch, lookin' lak he jes' gwine ter mill fer er bushel er meal an' ..."
6. Kansas Miscellanies by Noble Lovely Prentis (1889)
"In bringing up before the mind's eye this certainly remarkable man, it is necessary
to talk with those who in his day talked with him; who "hoorayed" for ..."
7. Poems and Plays by Percy MacKaye (1916)
"Us boys hoorayed, and me and every noodle Yelled Yankee-Doodle! "'My, how we
haw'd and gee'd the big ox-sledges Haulin' her long trunk through the hemlock ..."
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