huzza

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huz·zah

also huz·za  (hə-zä′)
interj.
Used to express joy, encouragement, or triumph.
n.
1. A shout of "huzzah."
2. A cheer.
[Perhaps variant of Middle English hisse, heave!; see hoist.]
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Wherever he went, he was accompanied by "a very large crowd of people, repeatedly huzzaing".
When Birmingham welcomed Nelson
A Caldron of fat Beef and Stoop of Ale On the huzzaing Mob shall more prevail Than if you give them with the nicest Art Ragousts of Peacocks Brains, or Filbert Tart.
Roast beef and ... salad? The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables but, as Anita Guerrini concludes from a survey of early modern writings on the subject, the nation's approach to food has been rather more complicated than that
In short, never was a People more agreeably alarmed, not so much as a single Village was wanting on this Occasion, nothing but Bell-ringing, Bonfires, Huzzaing, Illuminations, &c., being seen or heard all the country over.
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