Definition for HOOR-AH', or HOOR-AW'

HOOR-AH', or HOOR-AW', exclam. [Sw. hurra. The Welsh has çwara, play, sport; but the Swedish appears to be the English word. See Hurrah.]

A shout of joy or exultation. [This is the genuine English word, for which we find in books most absurdly written, Huzza, a foreign word never or rarely used.]

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