hilloa

English

Interjection

hilloa

1. Obsolete spelling of hello.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Compasseth the Marriage of Two True Lovers”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part fourth, page 146:

     "Hilloa, brother," quoth [Friar] 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.

   • 1890, William Morris, chapter XXII, in News from Nowhere‎:

     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."

   • 1847, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, chapter 32, in The String of Pearls‎:

     '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)

1. (obsolete) To holler, shout loudly
   • 1836, James White, The adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights at mess, and other tales:

     I heard old Jenkins, scarcely recovered from the effects of his potations, hilloaing at the top of his voice for Julia

Finnish

Noun

hilloa

1. partitive singular of hillo

Verb

hilloa

1. inflection of hillota:
   1. second-person singular imperative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative