what ho
English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, informal, dated) An exclamation of greeting, summons, or surprise.
- What ho, Frobisher!
- 1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 44:
- What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.
- 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
- ‘What ho!’ […] ‘Treasons, strategems and spoils.’