Posted by John on June 03, 2004 at 16:47:44 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.
Word of the Day for Saturday May 15, 2004
hullabaloo \HUL-uh-buh-loo\, noun:
A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
True, he had diplomatic immunity as the assistant
agricultural officer at the consulate, but the publicity
and hullabaloo of an arrest and interrogation, not to
mention expulsion from the country, would not be
career-enhancing.
--Stephen Coonts, [1]Hong Kong
By jumping on and off goods trains and encountering a
sympathetic manager who hid him down a mine until the
hullabaloo over his escape had died down, he finally
reached freedom.
--David Stafford, [2]Churchill and Secret Service
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Hullabaloo is perhaps a corruption of hurly-burly, or the
interjection halloo with rhyming reduplication.