Hooray Henry

• hooray Henry

Coined by American writer Damon Runyon in 1936.

Hooray Henry (plural Hooray Henrys or Hooray Henries)

1. (UK, colloquial, derogatory) An offensively loudmouthed upper-class man.

   Synonyms: hooray, hoorah

   Coordinate term: Hooray Henrietta

   It was a nice pub, down by the river, but full of Hooray Henrys.

   • 2003 August 3, Barbara Ellen, “Stupidly rich”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Most of us probably thought that the Hooray Henrys of the 80s were as bad as it was ever going to get, but at least those braying City boys had jobs.

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• Sloane Ranger

• Hooray Henry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eric Partridge (2005), “hooray Henry; hooray”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1027.
• “hooray (Henry) n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present