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hoo-ha colloq.|ˈhuːhɑː|
Also hoo-hah, hou-ha.
[Orig. unknown.]
A commotion, a rumpus, a row.
The use in quot. 1932 seems to be without parallel.
1931Punch 14 Oct. 402/1 The devil of a hoo-ha in the papers about increasing the demand for English-grown corn. 1932T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 30 You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo⁓ha's coming to you. 1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder vi. 63 He came up under cover of all the hoo-hah on the stage some time after the event. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral ix. 206 There's a bit of a hoo-hah on about your tea-party. 1954Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept., After all the hou-ha in the Observer about the death of the novel, perhaps we ought to be wearing a mourning-band. 1955E. C. R. Lorac Ask Policeman xvii. 187 He could cut off home after the hoo-ha died down and claim his inheritance. 1959B. Goolden For Richer, for Poorer xiii. 232, I don't think Mummy will make much of a hoo-hah if she knows it's not for long. 1963Sunday Express 15 Sept. 8/7 What has all the houha about the prodigious jump in productivity meant to the housewife? 1968Listener 27 June 837/1 And there was a terrific hoo-ha over this because they all thought I should go and be a termination case or something. 1971Country Life 27 May 1328/2 Some of these lovely irises may..be grown..successfully without much hoo-ha. |