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Hoo
Definitions
- 1 how Geordie, Northumbria, not-comparable
- 1 hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy obsolete
"Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!"
- 2 Used to attract the attention of others. Geordie
""Hoo yee!""
- 3 An exclamation of pain.
"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 - ""
- 1 The village of Hoo St Werburgh on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England.
"Hoo, St. Warburgh. […] Richard I confirmed to that Abbey a market in Hoo, of the gift of Maud de Canvill(s)."
- 2 A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2558).
"Bachcroft, Thomas; son of Thomas Bachcroft, of Bexwell, Norfolk. Educated under Mr. Spight. Age 18. Admitted pensioner, March 10, 1518. Man, John; of Hoo, Suffolk; son of Richard Man, mediocris fortunae. Admitted sizar. Tutor, Mr. Reve."
- 1 An uttering of the cry 'hoo'.
"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."
- 2 A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.
- 1 she Derbyshire, Yorkshire, feminine, nominative, singular, third-person
"'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."
- 2 he, also a gender-neutral third person pronoun England, South, West, West-Midlands, feminine, nominative, singular, third-person
Etymology
From Middle English hoo, shoo (“she”) from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.
From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.
From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.
From Middle English howe, hu (“how”), from Old English hū (“how”). More at how.
From Middle English hough, hogh, ho, from Old English hōh. Doublet of hough.
From Old English hōh; see hoo.
See also for "hoo"
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