hoo

/ huː /

pronoun

1. dialect,  she

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoo¹

from Old English heo

Example Sentences

“Caw! Hoo! Ruff! The little one—Beowulf, is it?—sketched maps of the forest that showed nooks and crannies Ashton himself had never heard of. Strange fellow, that Ashton. An odd duck. But he’ll be my son-in-law if all goes well, so live and let live, I say.”

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And after the Dodgers came up empty, the Giants finally ended things in the bottom half of the inning — when Scott came into the game, walked Jung Hoo Lee after failing to get a foul tip call for a potential third strike, then gave up a line-drive missile to Bailey with the bases loaded, handing the briefly surging Dodgers another sucker punch of a late-game defeat.

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Watch San Francisco Giants' Jung Hoo Lee make the "catch of the decade", trapping the ball between the knees while sliding against the Tampa Bay Rays.

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The couple phoned nearby Hatfield House and Luton Hoo to ask if they owned the bird.

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The two-way star wobbled ever so briefly in the second, walking Jung Hoo Lee on four pitches with two outs.

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