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hullabaloo \HUL-uh-buh-loo\, noun:A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Hullabaloo is perhaps a corruption of hurly-burly, or the interjection halloo with rhyming reduplication. hurly-burly
1539, alteration of phrase hurling and burling, reduplication of 14c. hurling "commotion, tumult," verbal noun of hurl (q.v.). Hurling time was the name applied by chroniclers to the period of tumult and commotion around Wat Tyler's rebellion.
hur·ly-bur·ly n. pl. hur·ly-bur·lies Noisy confusion; tumult. See halloo
hal·loo interj.
1. Used to catch someone's attention.
2. Used to urge on hounds in a hunt.
n. pl. hal·loos also hal·loas A shout or call of "halloo." v. hal·looed also hal·loaed, hal·loo·ing also hal·loa·ing, hal·loos also hal·loas v. intr. To shout "halloo." v. tr. To urge on or pursue by calling "halloo" or shouting.
1. To call out to.
2. To shout or yell (something).
hullabaloo \HUL-uh-buh-loo\, noun:A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Hullabaloo is perhaps a corruption of hurly-burly, or the interjection halloo with rhyming reduplication. hurly-burly
1539, alteration of phrase hurling and burling, reduplication of 14c. hurling "commotion, tumult," verbal noun of hurl (q.v.). Hurling time was the name applied by chroniclers to the period of tumult and commotion around Wat Tyler's rebellion.
hur·ly-bur·ly n. pl. hur·ly-bur·lies Noisy confusion; tumult. See halloo
hal·loo interj.
1. Used to catch someone's attention.
2. Used to urge on hounds in a hunt.
n. pl. hal·loos also hal·loas A shout or call of "halloo." v. hal·looed also hal·loaed, hal·loo·ing also hal·loa·ing, hal·loos also hal·loas v. intr. To shout "halloo." v. tr. To urge on or pursue by calling "halloo" or shouting.
1. To call out to.
2. To shout or yell (something).
This all seems like a lot of hullabaloo about a lot of hallooing
that was just hurly-burly in the first place if you ask me.
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