- a variation of holla.
hollo
Britishnoun
interjection
verb
Etymology
Origin of hollo
C16: from French holà ho there!
Example Sentences
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And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariner’s hollo!
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Riches are yours with a dollar bill; A million's the same little digit still, With nothing but naughts to follow, So hollo!
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke
And more than that—would they have said half they did to me last night"—— "Eh! hollo, by the way!
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
I was awakened the next morning about seven o'clock by Mr. Davis, who came into the stable below, calling out: 'What! hollo, lassy!
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
I did not mean to say 'I'—much less 'you'—in reference to who should hollo 'Halves!' to our sleeping benefactor.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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