Hoo
The village of Hoo St Werburgh in Kent in the United Kingdom.
A village and civil parish in Suffolk.
• OOH, oho, ooh
hoo third-person singular, feminine, nominative case (accusative and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)
(South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire) she
(west midlands and south-western) he or also can be used as a gender neutral third person pronoun
hoo!
(obsolete) hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy
(Geordie) Used to grab the attention of others.
hoo (not comparable)
(Northumbria, Geordie) how
hoo
(obsolete, outside, placenames) A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.
• OOH, oho, ooh
Source: Wiktionary
Hoo, interj.
1. See Ho. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
