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holloing

holloing is the present participle and gerund of hollo.

holloing is the alternative form of hallooing.

Meaning of hollo

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

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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 holloing

pluralholloings

Questions about holloing

What is holloing the present participle and gerund of?
Holloing is the present participle and gerund of hollo.

Words near holloing in the dictionary

  1. holloaing
  2. holloas
  3. Hollobon
  4. holloed
  5. holloes
  6. holloing
  7. holloings
  8. Hollola
  9. Holloman
  10. Hollomans
  11. Hollomon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holloing (page history and authors); hollo (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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