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yoo-hoo, int. (n.)|ˈjuːhuː|
[Cf. yoho int.]
A call made to attract attention, esp. to one's arrival or presence; also as n.
1924Dialect Notes V. 280 Yoo-hoo (call). 1926New Yorker 2 Jan. 18/3 Yoo-hoo! When did your school let out? 1937M. Allingham Case of Late Pig vii. 49 He opened the breakfast-room door. ‘Yoo-hoo!’ said someone inside. 1946A. Marshall in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 316 There was a faint ‘yoo-hoo!’ from behind us. We all turned. 1959L. Lee Cider with Rosie 150 I'm coming—yoo-hoo! Just mislaid my gloves. 1959A. Wesker Roots i. 16 Girl's Voice (off): Yoo-hoo! Any one home? 1970J. Updike Bech 182 Mildred..waved an alabaster, muscular arm: ‘Yoo-hoo, Henry, over here.’ 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 62 Yoo Hoo up there! Someone will be up to give you a hand with the rest of those things. 1983‘J. Gash’ Sleepers of Erin viii. 61 Patrick..trilled a roguish yoo⁓hoo.
Hence ˈyoohoo, ˈyoo-hoo v. intr. and trans., to call ‘yoo-hoo!’ (to); ˈyoohooing vbl. n.
1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams 14 He..yoohooed for a chair. 1954Partisan Rev. Nov.–Dec. 599 Life, despite their frantic yoohooing, had passed them by. 1957J. Kerouac On Road i. xiii. 88 Then they yoohooed us. 1969‘E. Lathen’ When in Greece xxii. 231 Leaving the ladies to their yoohooing, the three men followed the officer's directions. 1978‘J. Gash’ Gold from Gemini iii. 24 Patrick yoo-hooed me over to his place. 1982― Firefly Gadroon xiii. 122 Margaret blew a kiss... Patrick yoohooed. |