hoo

• IPA^(key): /huː/

From Middle English hoo, shoo (“she”) from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.

hoo (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, accusative and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)

1. (South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire) she
   • 1854, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South, Chapter VIII:

     'Aye, aye,' said the father, impatiently, 'hoo'll come. Hoo's a bit set up now, because hoo thinks I might ha' spoken more civilly; but hoo'll think better on it, and come. I can read her proud bonny face like a book.

• hoo-justice
• hoo'll
• hoose
• hoost
• hoor

From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.

hoo!

1. (obsolete) hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy

   Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! — Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life — Shakespeare, Hamlet.

2. (Geordie) Used to grab the attention of others.

   "Hoo yee!"

From Middle English howe, hu "how" from Old English hū "how". More at how.

hoo (not comparable)

1. (Northumbria, Geordie) how

• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,

From Old English hōh.

hoo

1. (obsolete outside placenames) A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.

• OOH, oho, ooh

hoo

1. porcupine

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː]

hoo

1. aitch (The name of the Latin-script letter H.)

• Speakers often use the corresponding forms of h-kirjain ("letter H, letter h") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural.

• h-kirjain

• hoomoilasena

• oho

hoo (not comparable)

1. how
2. why

From Old Norse hóa.

hoo (preterite hoe)

1. To shout.

• hååj
• roop