halloo
/həˈluː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A shout of halloo.
Example Sentences
- "Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue."
- ""Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all."
- "List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air."
- "At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with loud halloos, brandishing their spears, and splashing through the water in all directions."
- "As he was going over a pretty high mountain, he heard the noise of horses, the halloo of a huntsman, and the finest horn in the world."
- "She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward."