Hullo vs Hull - What's the difference?
hullo | hull |
(UK) (Greeting.)
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(UK, dated) (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
* 1939 , Country Life (volume 85, page 290)
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
* Dryden
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
*, II.1:
*:We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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As an interjection hullo
is (uk) (greeting).As a verb hull is
.hullo
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- "Hullo , there's a monkey's wedding," said my wife's niece, a girl of about twenty, born in South Africa
hull
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Synonyms
* (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shellDerived terms
* ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-downVerb
(en verb)- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
* (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuckEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.