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HOORAY HENRY

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Overview

HOORAY HENRY (noun)
  The noun HOORAY HENRY has 1 sense:

1. a lively and ineffectual upper-class young manplay

  Familiarity information: HOORAY HENRY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HOORAY HENRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A lively and ineffectual upper-class young man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hooray Henry" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


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