Halloo vs Hallow - What's the difference?
halloo | hallow |
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.
(archaic, or, dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
A shout, cry; a hulloo.
* 1777 , Robin Hood's Chase , reprinted in
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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
.halloo
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Interjection
Verb
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- Old John hallooes his hounds again.
- If I fly / Halloo me like a hare.
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hallow
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Etymology 1
(wikipedia hallow) From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- 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).Etymology 3
From (etyl) halowen, from , probably conflated with (etyl) halloer.Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- 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.