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Hallooing

Halloo \Hal*loo"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hallooed (-l[=oo]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallooing.] To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.

Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.
--Sir P. Sidney.

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hallooing

n. A cry of halloo. vb. (present participle of halloo English)

Usage examples of "hallooing".

At a more than ordinary pitch of thumping and hallooing in the passage, he exclaimed, "Devil take those young dogs!

This threat was so palpably disregarded, that though within five minutes afterwards the three boys all burst into the room together and sat down, Fanny could not consider it as a proof of any thing more than their being for the time thoroughly fagged, which their hot faces and panting breaths seemed to prove -- especially as they were still kicking each other's shins, and hallooing out at sudden starts immediately under their father's eye.

Reminded by the shape of some of the tokens, he thought of Sophie's fish, silently withdrew, and made his way along the busy High Street, past the George, to Holland's, where he bought a couple of fine plump lampreys (his favourite dish) and the dabs: these he carried with him down to the Hard, where the Mentor's crew, just paid off, were bawling and hallooing round a bonfire, together with a growing crowd of the thick, powerful young women known as brutes and a large number of pimps, idle apprentices, and pickpockets.

The screeching, hallooing, piping, and running about on the poop a few feet from the sleeper's head never disturbed him for a moment.

They were both of them jerked from their writing by a bawling, hallooing, rioting din.

A man that we saw this minute dumb, and, as it were, stupid and confounded, would the next minute be dancing and hallooing like an antic.

Having thus formed their little army, they marched out from among the trees, and came up to the teeth of the enemy, shouting and hallooing as loud as they could.

Their business was to follow the fire, for the surer execution: as fast as the fire either forced the people out of those houses which were burning, or frightened them out of others, our people were ready at their doors to knock them on the head, still calling and hallooing one to another to remember Tom Jeffry.

Here is the Captain himself, who will tell you that hallooing as you dance is not at all genteel.

And that same evening the sentinel came hallooing down - there was a ship in with the land, making for the harbour under an easy sail.