hollo

See halloo, and compare holla.

hollo

1. Hey, hello
   • 1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.‎:

     And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.

   • 1922, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories‎:

     Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!

hollo (plural hollos)

1. A cry of "hollo"
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems‎:

     And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe‎:

     "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."

   • 1910, W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts‎:

     The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.

hollo (third-person singular simple present holloes, present participle holloing, simple past and past participle holloed)

1. To cry "hollo"
   • 1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas‎:

     And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.

   • 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning‎:

     Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.