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Hooie vs Looie - What's the difference?

hooie | looie |

As nouns the difference between hooie and looie

is that hooie is (slang) nonsense, silliness, or fake assertions while looie is (informal) lieutenant.

As an interjection hooie

is (us|south) an expression of relief.

hooie

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (US, South) An expression of relief.
    • I am all done. Hooie !

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Nonsense, silliness, or fake assertions
  • * You're full of hooie .
  • * That's a bunch of hooie .

    • looie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Lieutenant.
  • * 1920 , Journal of the Fifty-Third National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic , Government Printing Office, page 90:
    • "Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies ," and privates.
  • * 1991 , Schroeck, Robert W., GURPS Supers: I.S.T. , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-192-X, page 5:
    • [...] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the characters as the Joint Chiefs of Staff are from that second looie .
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