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hullabaloo, n. (int.)|ˌhʌləbəˈluː|
Also 8 hollo-ballo, 9 halloo-, halla-, holla-, hulla-balloo, -boloo, halli(e)-, holliballoo, hille-, hilli-, hally-, hurla-, hulabaloo, hilliebalow.
[The form remained unsettled until the early 20th c.; it appears first in Sc. and north. Eng. writers and vocabularies.
It is app. the interj. halloo, hullo, hilloa, with riming reduplication, thus, halloo-baloo! The conjecture has been made, but without any evidence, that it was orig. a wolf-hunting cry, and contained the French words bas le loup! (Cf. balow, baloo.)]
Tumultuous noise or clamour; uproar; clamorous confusion. Also fig.
1762Smollett Sir L. Greaves vii, I would there was a blister on this plaguy tongue of mine for making such a hollo-ballo. 1800Southey in C. C. Southey Life II. 81 One day there was a hallaballoo (I never saw that word in a dictionary..) in the stables. 1804― Lett. (1856) I. 260 You must come as soon as our hullabaloo is over. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 597 Those ‘Cheap Publications’, about which they have made such a halloobaloo. 1825–80Jamieson, Halloo-balloo, hallie-balloo, a great noise and uproar. Renfr.; Hilliebalow Roxb.; Hillie-bulloo Angus; Hillie-bullow Fife. 1825Brockett, Hallabaloo, Hillebaloo, a noise, an uproar. 1841R. Oastler Fleet Papers I. xiii. 100 What a halloo-bo-loo the hunters sometimes caused! 1844Disraeli Coningsby viii. vi, The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. xxii. (1888) 265 There's no knowing what hullabaloo they might make! 1898J. Arch Story of Life xiii. 312 When the movement started, there was a terrible hullaboloo.
b. as int.
a1845[see hulloo]. 1887R. Abbay White Mare Whitestonecliff 147 That lazy crew..Would sleep till the porter cried ‘Hullaballoo, Hullaballoo, The abbot is waiting in chapel for you’.
Hence hullabaˈloo v. intr., to make a hullabaloo; also trans.; hullabaˈlooing ppl. a.
1867R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. v. 54 When I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger x. 93 On harvest days they were hullabalooed from bed before dawn. 1952Dylan Thomas Coll. Poems p. ix, Ho, hullaballoing clan Agape, with woe In your beaks, on the gabbing capes! |