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▪ I. hoo, int. and n.|huː|
A natural exclamation, used to express various feelings, as a call to attract attention, etc. Also, imitative of the sound of an owl, the wind, etc. (See also whoo.)
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 141 Hoo, saies a, there's my Cap. 1607― Cor. ii. i. 116 Take my Cappe, Iupiter and I thanke thee; hoo, Martius comming home? 1883J. Brinsley-Richards 7 Years Eton 116, I heard a cry of Hoo! tug! and..had just time to see the wretched little colleger clattering down the staircase.
b. Often doubled, or otherwise extended.
1607Shakes. Cor. iii. iii. 137 Our enemy is banish'd, he is gone: Hoo, oo. 1851Carlyle Sterling ii. v. (1872) 127 A dreary pulpit or even conventicle manner; that flattest moaning hoo-hoo of predetermined pathos. 1855Thackeray Rose & Ring x, I'm hungry for his blood. Hoo—oo, aw! 1884Daily News 27 Feb. 5/6 One could distinguish the hoo-hoo-oo, the strange war-cry of the [Soudanese] rebels. 1911T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 154 With a mighty firing of guns & pistols, and the hu-hu-hu and violent tahleel of the women [sc. native women in Syria].
▪ II. hoo, v.|huː|
Also Sc. hou.
[f. prec.; see also whoo v. and cf. hue v.2]
intr. To make the sound ‘hoo!’ Hence ˈhooing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1800in Cromek Rem. Nithsd. & Gal. Song (1810) 276 When the gray Howlet has three times hoo'd. 1820Edin. Mag. May 422/2 The houlet hou't through the riftit rock. 1842Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 157 The hooing and squealing of a child..to keep off the crows. 1865Cornh. Mag. July 37 The West-countryman says the wind ‘hoois’, and the North-countryman that ‘it soughs’. 1880Mark Twain Tramp Abroad I. 328 The clamorous hoo-hooing of its cuckoo clock.
▪ III. hoo
ME. spelling of ho int. and v.; obs. and dial. f. heo pron., she; Sc. f. how; obs. f. who. |