hollo

Interjection

1. (dated) Hey, hello
   • And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.
   • Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories
2. (UK, dated) hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
   • ‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

Noun

hollo (plural hollos)

1. A cry of "hollo"
   • And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
   • "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Verb

hollo (third-person singular simple present holloes, present participle holloing, simple past and past participle holloed)

1. To cry "hollo"
   • And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas
   • Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning