Calloo vs Halloo - What's the difference?
calloo | halloo |
The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis , an Arctic sea duck.
* 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , IV:
* 2012 , Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette , 8 Jan 2012:
Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention
Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers
To shout .
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", chapter=, edition=
, passage=As we ran, we hallooed , and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Charles S. Brooks, title=There's Pippins And Cheese To Come, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper. }}
To encourage with shouts.
* Prior
To chase with shouts or outcries.
* Shakespeare
To call or shout to; to hail.
As nouns the difference between calloo and halloo
is that calloo is the long-tailed duck, clangula hyemalis , an arctic sea duck while halloo is a shout of.As an interjection halloo is
used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.As a verb halloo is
to shout.calloo
English
Noun
(en noun)- This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.
- The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo ’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.
halloo
English
Interjection
Verb
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- Old John hallooes his hounds again.
- If I fly / Halloo me like a hare.
- (Shakespeare)
