hullabaloo
noun/ˌhʌləbəˈluː/UK/ˌhʌləbəˈlu/US
Etymology
Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words.
Definitions
A clamour, a commotion
A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
- They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
- […]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
- Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
To make a commotion or uproar.
- They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
- Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA