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Definition of Hooraying
1. hooray [v] - See also: hooray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooraying
Literary usage of Hooraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... but he was a stump—come into pra'r-meeting drunk, one night, hooraying for
Nixon, becuz he thought it was a primary; and old Deacon Ferguson up and ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"... one night, hooraying for Nixon, becuz he thought it was a primary; and old
Deacon Ferguson up and scooted him through the window and he lit on old Miss ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"By the way, while I was hooraying at the top, I noticed somebody evidently making
a sketch of me and the mountain together. I immediately took out my ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"When they were young fellows hooraying for the Anti-Corn Law, none of them ever
expected a turn-up like this. No doubt it worried the old man to see it, ..."
5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... unawares, 1mm time kitchen were occupied with meals, And she stood upon her
head In hen little trundle-bed, And then began hooraying with her heels. ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"That's doing a big business on a small capital though, when a fellow comes to
reflect what an amount of hooraying and hissing, fighting, spree- ing and ..."
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