tallyho
Americannoun
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Chiefly British. a mail coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach.
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a cry of “tallyho.”
interjection
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tallyho
1750–60; compare French tayau hunter's cry
Example Sentences
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Rolls Royces and big red buses carts charabancs, here and there a tallyho, moved like gastropoda along the road.
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
At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho.
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
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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 Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Perhaps not; but Chadwick, tallyhoing after domestic happiness, misses the scent.
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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