int. Obs. Also wa ha ho, wa’hoh. = HALLOO.
c. 1595. R. Carew, Excellency Engl. Tongue, in G. G. Smith, Elizab. Crit. Ess. (1904), II. 287. In detestation wee saye Phy...; in calling, whowp; in hallowinge, wahahowe: all which (in my eare) seeme to be deriued from the very natures of those seuerall affections.
c. 1600. Distr. Emperor, II. i., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1884), III. 194. Wa, ha ho, man! Your buzzard is a kynde of byrde of prey.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Little Fr. Lawyer, IV. iv. La-writ. So ho? our weapons. Sam. Wa, ha, ho, our weapons?
1633. B. Jonson, Tale of Tub, I. i. 23. Hug. The Vicar of Pancrace, Squire Tub! wa’ hoh! Tub. I come, I stoop unto the call; Sir Hugh!
