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huzzahing

huzzahing is the present participle and gerund of huzzah.

Meaning of huzzah

Verb

huzzah (third-person singular simple present huzzahs, present participle huzzahing, simple past and past participle huzzahed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.
    • Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.1710 October 1 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Whig-Examiner: No. 2. Wednesday, September 21. [1710.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London...

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Questions about huzzahing

What is huzzahing the present participle and gerund of?
Huzzahing is the present participle and gerund of huzzah.

Words near huzzahing in the dictionary

  1. huzz
  2. huzza
  3. huzzaed
  4. huzzah
  5. huzzahed
  6. huzzahing
  7. huzzahs
  8. huzzaing
  9. huzzas
  10. huzzed
  11. huzzes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huzzahing (page history and authors); huzzah (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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