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hulloa

hulloa is the alternative form of hollo.

Meaning of 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.
  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

See all 4 meanings of hollo

Forms of hulloa

third-person singular presenthulloas
present participlehulloaing
past participlehulloaed
pasthulloaed

Questions about hulloa

What is hulloa the alternative form of?
Hulloa is the alternative form of hollo.

Words near hulloa in the dictionary

  1. hulling
  2. Hullinger
  3. Hullingers
  4. Hullish
  5. hullo
  6. hulloa
  7. hulloaed
  8. hulloaing
  9. hulloas
  10. hullock
  11. hullocks

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