hilloa
English
Interjection
hilloa
- Obsolete spelling of hello.
- 1890, William Morris, chapter XXII, in News from Nowhere[1]:
- As for Dick, he looked at her admiringly a while, and then said at last: "Well, Clara, I do wish we were there! But, hilloa! we are getting back way."
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter XIII, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood[2]:
- "Hilloa, brother," quoth Tuck, "let me aid thee." So saying, he took the key from the other's hand and quickly opened the door with a turn of it.
- 1847, James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, chapter 32, in The String of Pearls[3]:
- 'Ah,' muttered Todd to himself, 'I like boys of a religious turn. They are much easier managed, for the imagination in such cases has been cultivated at the expense of the understanding. Hilloa, who have we here?'
Verb
hilloa (third-person singular simple present hilloas, present participle hilloaing, simple past and past participle hilloaed)