(interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
(5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
(6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
(7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
(8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
(9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
(10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
(11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
(12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
(13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
(15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
(16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
(17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
(18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
(19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
(20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.
Hoy
Definition:
(n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
(interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop!
Example Sentences:
(1) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
(2) Baugé's body language afterwards indicated he had been on the receiving end of another severe psychological blow; both men progressed to the quarter-finals, but Kenny has already shown that he amply merits his selection ahead of the defending champion, Hoy.
(3) Hoy and others fear that the Kincora inquiry, which is based in Northern Ireland and taking hearings at the court in Banbridge, County Down, will not have access to sensitive MI5 intelligence files on the people who ran Kincora.
(4) That is why many Mexicans are very disconnected with the Galaxy,” said Eduard Cauich, sports editor for Hoy, a Spanish-language weekly published by the Los Angeles Times.
(5) "Governments must show all the energy and cunning of Chris Hoy and Mo Farah until they win [the fight]," he told the audience.
(6) plcS mapped approximately at 67 min on the 75-min chromosomal map (B. W. Holloway, K. O'Hoy, and H. Matsumoto, p. 213-221, in S. J. O'Brien, ed., Genetic Maps 1987, vol.
(7) As Hoy sees it, increasing the number of track cyclists boils down to one issue: access.
(8) The MPs must have felt they were being addressed by the Old Man of Hoy.
(9) Kenny was selected because he has a proven record of rising to the occasion for major championships and because it was believed that his youth would enable him to recover more quickly than Hoy between matches in a tournament where the first two legs in the final were separated by 15 minutes.
(10) Previous behavioral assays showed that crickets discriminate the low frequencies of the species calling song (4-5 kHz) from the high frequencies contained in the vocalizations of insectivorous bats (Nolen and Hoy, 1986a).
(11) British cycling team thrown into chaos by departure of Shane Sutton Read more The Australian, who mentored Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins to Olympic success before taking over the top role in British Cycling in 2014, was already under scrutiny after allegations of sexism made by the track rider Jess Varnish at the weekend.
(12) All right, maybe Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis will sneak ahead of the mayor at the finish line.
(13) A unique source of ipsilaterally mediated inhibition, tuned to the calling song frequency, accounted for the poor response to calling song and hence the neuron's high-frequency selectivity, and the behavioral and physiological effects of 2-tone suppression of high frequencies by the calling song (Nolen and Hoy, 1986b).
(14) As a result, five of the best 10 qualifiers from the world championships were absent here, including Hoy, who took bronze at the world's behind Baugé and Kenny.
(15) Hoy now stands alone, a national hero, as the only man who has won three gold medals on two wheels in a single Olympic games, but countless other cyclists have felt the same as he did after five minutes whirling round the bankings: "There was a sudden acceleration, a burst of speed, and I was hooked.
(16) Part of the London gold rush was dependent on two riders at the end of their careers – Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton.
(17) Hoy is an enthusiastic proponent of his sport: "It's exhilarating as you fly down the bankings.
(18) The establishment of the fund represents the largest single injection of public money into cycling in England, and was due to be formally launched by Cameron alongside Britain's most successful Olympian, the track cyclist Chris Hoy.
(19) The 24-year-old's status as the stealth champion of British cycling – compared to the cover stars Hoy, Pendleton and Wiggins – looked set to change after the coaches made their unexpected call in June and it will certainly change now.
(20) Certainly the newspaper Hoy, Diario del Magdalena had little doubt who was to blame for their defeat.