Meaning

2 senses
  1. An uttering of the cry 'hoo'.

  2. A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I've got a big hoo-ha.

  2. Woo hoo! It's the weekend!

    deFreude! Es ist Wochenende! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho. From Middle English hough, hogh, ho, from Old En

From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.

From Middle English hough, hogh, ho, from Old English hōh. Doublet of hough.

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Forms

plural: hoos
Singularhoo
Pluralhoos

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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