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Sheets and lines are duly differentiated; disorder is referred to as being "all ahoo."
At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011
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: Description of the Y ahoo! group Remember_The_Holocaust
An Active-Museum and How Oral, Aural, and Visual Memory Are Taught and Can Empower Peoples 2009
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I suppose it might have been put up in honor of the annual Santa Barbara Film Festival that had our downtown set all ahoo last week.
More Public Art 2007
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I can see him perfectly with my eyes still closed: his hair all ahoo; his beady eyes staring intently at his shoes; his stethoscope twisted crooked around his neck, crushing his collar.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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'Ahoo,' he says, 'ahoo, but me insides has torn loose,' he says, 'an' are tumblin 'around,' he says.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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I am not accustomed to be told what subjects I am to discuss at my own table, but (_scathingly_) no doubt your _position here_ gives you the right to be independent -- ahoo!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 Various 1876
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But Bull turned about and shook his head at him, and said: "It is a man of my kindred, even he that was leading away thy she-friend; and belike she it was that slew him, or why is she not here: Ochone! ahoo! ahoo!"
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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"Wallop ahoo aboo, Erin gobragh!" sung out our leader, Captain Driscoll.
A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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"Whollop-ahoo-ahoo! on we go;" but although he whipped his unfortunate steed, the animal refused to move at a quicker pace.
Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On seeing this, Tim set up a wild shout, which sounded to my ears like "Wallop -- ahoo -- aboo -- Erin-go-bragh!" in which I very heartily joined him, feeling no small satisfaction at the peaceable termination of this our first interview with one of the very few wild beasts we had to dread in the forests of the Orinoco.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
chained_bear commented on the word ahoo
"'But I should not like to answer for the wind: the weather is all ahoo—the glass skips up and down—and we may have Pellworm's blow upon us yet. Still, if it does not come much south of west...'
"The weather was indeed all ahoo, upset, chaotic, unpredictable; and there was a very great deal of it, almost always thick..."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 284
See also a usage on bunt.
February 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ahoo
How interesting...the weather here's been all ahoo too.
February 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ahoo
Just found this on Google Books:
"This is the most favoured habitat of the GOITERED GAZELLE (Gazella subgutturosa), Persian Ahoo. It is found in the plains of Khuzistan in the south-west, the plains of Zanjan in the north-west and Khorosan in the north-east and the Sistan plains in the south-east.
"In the drier parts of the centra desert is found the JEBEER (Gazella dorcas fuscifrons) and very occasionally the two species can be seen together. A small population of the goitered gazelle is found on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
"The ahoo is an extremely elegant and beautiful animal, being about 75 centimetres high and weighing up to 50 kilogrammes. The males have a pair of slender pointed horns, bending slightly outwards at the tips. The females are usually hornless, but there is a small population of horned females in the west of Iran.
"As mentioned previously, the Jebeer Gazelle lives in the arid region of the central Khavir. Smaller than the ahoo, it weighs up to 25 kilogrammes. Both sexes have horns and the species is only ever found in small groups of 20–30, unlike the ahoo which may run in herds of hundreds."
—Patrick Humphreys, Esmail Kahrom, Lion and Gazelle: The Mammals and Birds of Iran (I.B. Tauris, 1999), 59–60
October 13, 2008
trivet commented on the word ahoo
Ooooh, another ungulate! Thanks for the lovely tidbit, c_b.
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ahoo
Three more, trivet! You're welcome. :)
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ahoo
"'I'm afraid your cabin was all ahoo, ma'am,' he said. 'But I picked up what bits was scattered on the floor...'"
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 323
March 17, 2010