tallyho

American  

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

noun

plural

tallyhos

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.”

Etymology

Origin of tallyho

1750–60; compare French tayau hunter's cry

Example Sentences

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

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

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

After the first tallyho, Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon—once perhaps in the whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 by Various