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Hallo vs Hollo - What's the difference?

hallo | hollo |

As an adjective hallo

is auditory.

As an interjection hallo

is hello (used only when answering phone).

As a verb hollo is

.

hallo

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • A variant of hello
  • A cry of surprise.
  • * 1890 , ,
    • It sounds like a sum in the rule of three. The answer should give us the — But hallo ! here are the accredited representatives of the law.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cry "hallo!"
  • A shout of exultation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shout, or to call with a loud voice.
  • To chase while shouting "hallo!"
  • To cry "hallo" (to someone).
  • To shout (something).

    • See also

    * lo *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hollo

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Hey, hello
  • * {{quote-book, year=1609, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=Everie Woman In Her Humor, edition= citation
    • , passage=And then to Apollo hollo , trees, hollo. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, title=Grimm's Fairy Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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! }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cry of ""
  • * {{quote-book, year=1798, author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge, title=Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems, chapter=Rime of the Ancient Mariner, edition= citation
    • , passage=And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo ! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1819, author=Walter Scott, title=Ivanhoe, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I always add my hollo ," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=W.F. Drannan, title=Chief of Scouts, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cry ""
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=J. S. LeFanu, title=Uncle Silas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Edward Dowden, title=Robert Browning, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose. }}