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hullo

UK/hʌˈləʊ/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,698 of 15,258mostly spoken

Hullo is a greeting or call for attention, written the older British way. Hullo there, said hullo, hullo again.

It is a spelling variant of hello with a u, and it looks Edwardian on the page, which is why it survives mostly in older fiction. Hullo also carries a note of surprise, as in hullo, what is this.

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Definitions of hullo

  1. 1nounhulloA greeting or call for attention, written in the older British way with a u where the usual spelling has an e.C2

    “He called out a cheerful hullo from the garden gate.”

hullo is a greeting.

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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