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exclamation
dialect Scottish, British, Northern English, IrishUsed as a call to a cow or calf, or to command a horse to stop, stand still, etc.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and theologian. Apparently imitative.
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