hoo hoo

• hoo-hoo

hoo hoo (plural hoo hoos)

1. A hooting noise, such as a laugh or the hoot of an owl.
   • 1962, Sally Patrick Johnson, Everyman's Ark:

     That night, when I carried Chumley's food and drink of tea out to him he greeted me with loud "hoo hoos" of delight, and jogged up and down, beating his knuckles on the ground.

   • 2001, William T. Close, A Doctor's Life: Unique Stories, →ISBN, page 100:

     "Now," said Paulette, every fiber of her system concentrated on the next phase of the action, "go ahh, ahh, ahh and relax." During the hoo hoos and the ahh ahhs, I gathered from the professor's grunts of approval and gentle encouragement of the patient that the baby was working its way down the birth canal and that delivery was imminent.

   • 2003, Gary Bogue, The Raccoon Next Door: Creatures of the Urban Wilderness, →ISBN, page 50:

     Another black early fall dawn, years ago, I sat on a granite boulder in the Yosemite backcountry and decided to hoot back at some "hoo hoos" in the darkness.

   • 2008, Jane Covernton, Cutlass Time, →ISBN, page 86:

     The Rolling Stones suck the air from the room. The hoo hoo's in the background pierce the air.

2. Alternative form of hoo-hoo (genitalia)
   • 2009, David Burgess, Three Simple Rules for Marital Bliss, →ISBN, page 39:

     When a woman is giving birth, she is trying to pass a small child through her “hoo hoo” (or whatever euphemism you are comfortable with).

   • 2010, Brenda Wojick, Can You Squeeze My Banana?, →ISBN, page 189:

     Technically she was showing everyone in the hallway her hoo hoo. This is not so mortifying to me as it is to the brand new nursing students, many of them who are male.

   • 2012, J. R. Thompson, Letters to Raya, →ISBN, page 110:

     “Mum needed her 'hoo hoo' sewn up!” and there it was, thank you Mai.