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Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention? The Oxford English Dictionary dates yoo-hoo to 1924, as noted by the American Dialect Society, and compares it to yo-ho, originally a nautical phrase also sometimes used in yo-heave-ho Their first documented use of yo-ho is from 1769 in William Falconer's An universal dictionary of the marine: Hola-ho, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe Yo-ho derives from two interjections Yo: an exclamation of
Coquette vs. flirt - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the difference between coquette and flirt? They seem to mean the exact same thing; is it only their historical or etymological baggage that determines different usage?
Onomatopoeia for sirens (police, ambulance, fire engines) 3 I like the one suggested by the UD: Wee woo: is the sound a siren makes It is used in jest, to make fun of police cars, fire engines, ambulances, anything with a siren, really Popularized by short films Anyway I don't think there is an 'official' one
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange An expression of negativity An exclaimation of disapproval of the current situation at hand OED lists the interjectional and the second noun sense together and the earliest example is the sound of a collie: Imitation of a gruff abrupt bark of a dog; also transf (Cf whoof int )
What is the origin of the phrase touch wood? Here is the entry for "knock on wood" in Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, fourth edition (2008): knock on wood Why do we say knock on wood and tap wood or our heads after declaring that some calamity has never happened to us? The superstition is an old one and has many possible explanations, none sure It may be of pagan origin, deriving from the