woohoo

See also: woo hoo

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wuːˈhuː/, /wʊˈhuː/, /wəˈhuː/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

woohoo

  1. Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
    Synonyms: hooray, yahoo, yay, yippee
    Woohoo! It’s summer again!
    • [1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181:
      She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.]
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