hoo
/huː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
she
pron
he, also a gender-neutral third person pronoun
intj
An exclamation of pain.
adv
how
Example Sentences
- "'Aye, aye,' said the father, impatiently, 'hoo'll come. Hoo's a bit set up now, because hoo thinks I might ha' spoken more civilly; but hoo'll think better on it, and come. I can read her proud bonny face like a book."
- "Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!"
- "With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life"
- ""Hoo yee!""
- "Old Peter, summoned to assist at getting Mrs Dibble upstairs, made no pretence of commiseration for the sufferer. "Gone and done it again, have you?" he said with satisfaction. "About the best thing you could have done, the way it'll keep you out of the shop a bit longer," which so far revived Mrs Dibble that she exclaimed fiercely, "I don't want none of your cheek, Peter Bodfish and not a minute you'd stay in my shop if - Hoo! Ow! Me leg - ""
- "Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin."
Etymology
From Middle English hoo, shoo (“she”) from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.