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How to use hoo in a sentence

10 example sentences · pronoun, interjection, noun

Hoo means she. Example: “Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.”

Examples of hoo by meaning

nounAn uttering of the cry 'hoo'.

  • Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 98

More sentences with hoo

  • Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.From the entry sweb
  • "Woo hoo!" yelled Sue and David. "It's the weekend!"From the entry woo hoo
  • “Hoo, boy,” Joely said as she shifted the boxes to find the lightest one.2016, Jean Tennant, Ghost Boy. From the entry hoo, boy
  • “Hoo boy, I was hoping to leave that one alone for a while.2015, Chris Loblaw, The Patchwork Boy, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry hoo boy
  • “Mum needed her 'hoo hoo' sewn up!” and there it was, thank you Mai.2012, J. R. Thompson, Letters to Raya, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry hoo hoo
  • Hoo, boy, Angie thought with only a vague sense of reality.2012, Elizabeth Bevarly, Bride Of The Bad Boy, →ISBN. From the entry hoo, boy
  • Technically she was showing everyone in the hallway her hoo hoo.2010, Brenda Wojick, Can You Squeeze My Banana?, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry hoo hoo
  • “Hoo boy,” Duff says under his breath.2015, Huntley Fitzpatrick, The Boy Most Likely To, →ISBN, page 274. From the entry hoo boy
  • She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."2004, James Campbell, “Boswell and Mrs. Miller”, in Wendy Lesser, editor, The Genius of Language, page 194. From the entry haver

Meaning of hoo

  1. pronoun She.
  2. pronoun He, also a gender-neutral third person pronoun.
  3. interjection Expressing joy, excitement, or victory.

Full definition of hoo

Questions about hoo in a sentence

How do you use hoo in a sentence?
Hoo is used as a pronoun, interjection and noun. For example: “Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.”
What is a short sentence with hoo?
““Hoo boy,” Duff says under his breath.”
What does hoo mean?
Hoo means she.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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