different between hooah vs huzzah

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?hu.??/

Interjection

hooah

1. (US, military) The official yell of the US Army.

   Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?

   Soldiers: Hooah!

See also

• ooh-rah, oorah
• hooyah

Anagrams

• hoo-ha

English

Alternative forms

• huzza

Etymology

Likely originally a hoisting cry [from 1570s], possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??z??/

  Rhymes: -??

Interjection

huzzah

1. (nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
2. (literary, poetic, sometimes humorous) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment or approval.

Synonyms

• (hoisting cry): heave, heave-ho
• (cheer indicating enjoyment or approval): hooray, hurrah, hurray, see also Thesaurus:well done.

Noun

huzzah (plural huzzahs)

1. A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.

Verb

huzzah (third-person singular simple present huzzahs, present participle huzzahing, simple past and past participle huzzahed)

1. To cheer with a huzzah sound.
   • 1891, in Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260:

     In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]