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halloing

halloing is the present participle and gerund of hallo.

halloing is the alternative form of hallooing.

Meaning of hallo

Verb

hallo (third-person singular simple present hallos or halloes, present participle halloing, simple past and past participle halloed)

  1. (intransitive) To shout, or to call with a loud voice.
    • Tom was just hiding behind a wall, […] but the groom saw him, and halloed to him to know where Mr. Grimes, the chimney-sweep, lived.1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
  2. (transitive) To chase while shouting "hallo!"
  3. (transitive) To cry "hallo" (to someone).
  4. (transitive) To shout (something).

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Meaning of hallooing

Noun

hallooing (plural hallooings)

  1. A cry of halloo.
    • Whisperings and hallooings are like to a deaf ear.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of halloing

pluralhalloings

Questions about halloing

What is halloing the present participle and gerund of?
Halloing is the present participle and gerund of hallo.

Words near halloing in the dictionary

  1. halloed
  2. halloedst
  3. halloes
  4. halloest
  5. halloeth
  6. halloing
  7. halloings
  8. halloo
  9. halloo before one is out of the wood
  10. halloo'd
  11. hallooed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halloing (page history and authors); hallo (page history and authors); hallooing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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