Postby Stargzer » Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:56 pm
Tim's recent post reminded me of another word: Hullabaloo.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
hullabaloo
SYLLABICATION: hul·la·ba·loo
PRONUNCIATION: hŭl
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VARIANT FORMS: also
hul·la·bal·loo
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl.
hul·la·ba·loos
Great noise or excitement; uproar. See synonyms at
noise.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of obsolete
hollo-ballo, probably from
holla, hello. See
hello.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Online Etymology Dictionary:
hullabaloo
1762,
hollo-ballo "uproar," chiefly in northern England and Scot., perhaps a rhyming reduplication of
hollo (see
hello).
Hullabaloo! was also ". . . a musical variety show on NBC that aired from January 12, 1965 to April 11, 1966 (with reruns continuing until August 29, 1966) and featured some of the most popular pop/rock acts of the mid-60s." It spawned a string of teen-age dance clubs of the same name.
Regards//Larry
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