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Hookah vs Hooah - What's the difference?

hookah | hooah |

As a noun hookah

is a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

As an interjection hooah is

the official yell of the US Army.

hookah

English

(wikipedia hookah)

Alternative forms

* hukkah * hooka

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
  • * 1831 , The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction :
    • In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
  • * 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
    • The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah .
  • * 1960 , , To Kill a Mockingbird , chapter 9:
    • When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.

    Synonyms

    * waterpipe * hubble-bubble * hubbly bubbly * narghile * shisha

    hooah

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (US, military) The official yell of the US Army.
    • Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?
    Soldiers: Hooah !

    Anagrams

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    See also

    * ooh-rah, oorah * hooyah