Whoop vs Huzzah - What's the difference?
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An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
A bump on a racetrack.
* 2006 , Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)
* 2009 , Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)
A bird, the hoopoe.
To make a whoop.
* (William Wordsworth)
* W. Browne
To shout, to yell.
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, title= To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
* (William Shakespeare)
Whoop is a related term of huzzah.
As nouns the difference between whoop and huzzah
is that whoop is an exclamation, a cry, usually of joy while huzzah is a cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.As verbs the difference between whoop and huzzah
is that whoop is to make a whoop or whoop can be (informal) to beat, to strike while huzzah is to cheer with a huzzah sound.As an interjection huzzah is
(nautical|dated).whoop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
- The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
Verb
(en verb)- each whooping with a merry shout
- When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
