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oho, int.|əʊˈhəʊ|
Also as two words o ho, oh ho, etc.; also 4 o how.
[See ho int.1 5.]
An exclamation expressing surprise, taunting, exultation, etc.; in quot. 1369 as a shout to arouse a sleeper. (Cf. ho int.1)
13..Cursor M. 12129 (Gött.) ‘O ho!’ alle þan gan þai cri, ‘Qua herd euer sua grett ferli!’ c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 179 This messager..cried O how, a-wake anoon. c1460Towneley Myst. viii. 28 O, ho! this is a wonderfull thyng to witt. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 71 Oh ho, do you come neere me now. 1610― Temp. i. ii. 349 Oh ho, Oh ho, would't had bene done. 1778F. Burney Diary 26 Aug., O ho, this is a good hearing! 1838Dickens O. Twist ii, ‘Oho!..we are the fellows to set this to rights’. c1874D. Boucicault Shaughraun in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 224 Oho! if that's Robert Ffolliott, I'd like to know who's this? 1898G. B. Shaw Arms & Man iii. 56 Four telegrams—a week old. (He opens one). Oho! Bad news!.. My father's dead. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iii. i. 93 ‘Oho,’ they cried, ‘the world is wide, But fettered limbs go lame!’ 1976P. Dickinson King & Joker ii. 27 Oho. So something had happened. |