What's the difference between hurrah and huzzah?

Hurrah


Definition:

  • (interj.) Alt. of Hurra
  • (n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
  • (v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
  • (v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As for Bowie, Tony Visconti seems confident that The Next Day is a new beginning rather than simply one last hurrah.
  • (2) Tonight, hurrah, I have a seat on my favourite train home, the 1819.
  • (3) Bosnia-Herzegovina Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Harrowingly for Greece, there is a rival Balkan Bloc entry and hurrah, the song is in the local language.
  • (4) High tempo, chances galore, Dortmund very much in the mood, Bayern taking long finding their rhythm," hurrahs Zoltan Toszgei.
  • (5) Hurrah & huzzah for James Dunsby, a greater man you could not meet."
  • (6) An email: "I absolutely agree with Lucky Pierre," hurrahs Michael Best.
  • (7) Daily Mail: Such as he never said "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" and "That Hitler is a lovely bloke".
  • (8) The prime minister, Matteo Renzi, thanked the police and prosecutors involved, tweeting: “Hurrah for Italy.
  • (9) It's a tribute to Rimington's chairmanship that this commitment to easeful enjoyment is loyally echoed by colleagues, with her fellow judge and author Susan Hill tweeting: "Hurrah!
  • (10) As critics lined up to slam judges' unexpected selection, which included two debut novelists ahead of titles by former winner Alan Hollinghurst and Costa winner Sebastian Barry, judge Susan Hill tweeted "Hurrah!
  • (11) on the dysfunctional value destructive way the Co-op has been run by mgt May 7, 2014 Indeed.... 4.13pm BST Back to the Co-op Bank -- MPs have cited the example of the Rochdale Pioneers (hurrah!
  • (12) Labour is committed to a freelance charter and leader Ed Miliband promises to deliver equal rights for the self-employed and (hurrah!)
  • (13) Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY Item Club, said the numbers represented “one last hurrah” for the economy before it entered a weaker and more turbulent period.
  • (14) There was still a final night out in Split to come, though, and I steeled myself for one last hurrah.
  • (15) Black people were now in the mainstream … Hurrah!
  • (16) And is this a triumphant hurrah for science, finally trumping arts in changing society?
  • (17) British summer time is just days away but winter has had one last hurrah, with snow falling across parts of the UK.
  • (18) People may keep on being dishonest, may get away with it and may publish in the same journals time and again, to the hurrahs of like-minded people who are often editors of the same journals," he writes.
  • (19) But there was one more dominant figure lurking in the wings - Robert Maxwell, whose introduction of colour into the Mirror Group papers, before he plundered the pension fund and literally went overboard, gave it what may have been its last hurrah.
  • (20) He was knocked out by George Foreman for the second time in 1976, retired, and came back in 1981 for a draw against Jumbo Cummings in his last hurrah.

Huzzah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hurrah & huzzah for James Dunsby, a greater man you could not meet."
  • (2) My consultant's notes refer to the tests simply as "bloods", which sounds nicely cavalier ("Huzzah, sir, pick up your rapier!")
  • (3) Look, don't get me wrong about Affleck: he seems like a nice guy, and I was made up for him over that business with the Iranian hostage movie and the beardy Oscar and whatnot, even if best picture is an award also recently bestowed upon the likes of Crash and The Hurt Locker (huzzah for movies which dispense with yesteryear concepts like "stories" and "characters anyone could give a toss about").
  • (4) Hurrah & huzzah for James Dunsby; a greater man you could not meet."

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