tallyho

American  

[tal-ee-hoh, tal-ee-hoh] / ˈtæl iˌhoʊ, ˌtæl iˈhoʊ /

noun

• tallyhos
  plural

1. Chiefly British. a mail coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach.

2. a cry of “tallyho.”

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interjection

1. the cry of a hunter on first sighting the fox.

verb (used with object)

tallyhoed, tallyho'd, tallyhoing

1. to arouse by crying “tallyho,” as to the hounds.

verb (used without object)

tallyhoed, tallyho'd, tallyhoing

1. to utter a cry of “tallyho.”

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tallyhos
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of tallyho

1750–60; compare French tayau hunter's cry

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tallyho tallyhos tallyhoing

Now 59-year-old John Cuneo spends much of his time with his family on his farms, where he raises hackney ponies, Palominos and Suffolks, drives his friends about in a tallyho on holidays.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rolls Royces and big red buses carts charabancs, here and there a tallyho, moved like gastropoda along the road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deep in Leinster street by Trinity's postern a loyal king's man, Hornblower, touched his tallyho cap.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Unfortunately, the laborer, being unacquainted with the code of neckties and tallyhos, failed to follow their example, and one young lady was left at an embarrassed stance.

From Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Upon their tallyhos I ride And brave the chances of a storm; I even use my own inside To keep their wines and victuals warm.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Perhaps not; but Chadwick, tallyhoing after domestic happiness, misses the scent.

From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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