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Whoo int. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whoo int. Also whooh. [Variant of HOO int.] An exclamation of surprise, grief, or other emotion; occas. an imitation of an owl’s hoot (cf. TU-WHOO). Also repeated and in WHOO-WHOOP.

1 1608.  Middleton, Mad World, III. ii. E 2. Wife. Will you but heare a word from mee? Curtiz. Whooh.

2 1683.  Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Rehearsal, V. i. (ed. 4), 49. Smi. I had rather be bound to Fight your Battel, I assure you, Sir. Bayes. Whoo! there’s it now: fight a Battel? there’s the common error.

3 1770.  J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Wks. (1862), 365. On hearing the news of his landlord’s death, [Abraham] only cried out, Whoo-who, whoo-who, whoo—.

4 1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Whoo, whoo, an interjection, marking great surprize.

5 1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. v. ‘Pray, can he really read?’ ‘Whoo!’ says I, ‘why he does nothing else.’

6 1908.  Weyman, Wild Geese, xviii. 282. He heard … the ‘Whoo! hoo! hoo!’ of owls beginning to mouse beside the lake.

7 1915.  Mrs. Stratton-Porter, M. O’Halloran, xv. 368. Whoohoo it’s so good, Mickey!

8   So Whoo sb., an utterance of this exclamation, or a similar sound, a hoot.

9 1845.  C. Wilkes, Narr. U.S. Expl. Exped., II. 199. At the end of each dance they finished with a loud whoo, or screech.

10 1863.  Reade, Hard Cash, I. vii. 217. Down came the gale with a whoo.

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