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Halloo vs Hallow - What's the difference?

halloo | hallow |

As nouns the difference between halloo and hallow

is that halloo is a shout of while hallow is (archaic|or|dialectal) a saint; a holy person; an apostle or hallow can be a shout, cry; a hulloo.

As verbs the difference between halloo and hallow

is that halloo is to shout while hallow is to make holy, to sanctify or hallow can be to shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.

As an interjection halloo

is used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

As an adjective hallow is

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halloo

English

Interjection

  • Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention
  • Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout of
  • * Milton
  • List! List! I hear / Some far-off halloo break the silent air.

    Verb

  • To shout .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , passage=We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper. }}
  • To encourage with shouts.
  • * Prior
  • Old John hallooes his hounds again.
  • To chase with shouts or outcries.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If I fly / Halloo me like a hare.
  • To call or shout to; to hail.
  • (Shakespeare)

    hallow

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia hallow) From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
  • All Hallows''' Eve'' (or Halloween), the night before ''All '''Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make holy, to sanctify.
  • *
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) halowen, from , probably conflated with (etyl) halloer.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout, cry; a hulloo.
  • * 1777 , Robin Hood's Chase , reprinted in
  • Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
  • *
  • I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

    Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
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