hulabaloo

hulabaloo (countable and uncountable, plural hulabaloos)

1. Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
   • 1810, [Catherine Cuthbertson], chapter XII, in Forest of Montalbano: […], volume I, London: […] George Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 238:

     Then comes Conte Lorenzago, picceering into the hall, to add to the hulabaloo; and there he kept singing out, about your loss; […]

   • 1884, “A Few Words on Geology in the Schools—[…] ”, in History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois. […], Chicago, Ill.: Globe Publishing Co., […], →OCLC, part I (History of Wayne County), page 13, column 2:

     It is said that the newspapers, the stump speakers, and the widespread discussions of political questions that precede our elections, make the best posted people on questions of political economy in the world. […] If this is true, it is a marvelous fact, an amazing commentary upon our boasted civilization, a biting irony upon the election and Fourth of July hulabaloos that do so abound and are so like the plunging Niagara.

   • 2013, Joe R[ichard] Lansdale, “Christmas Monkeys”, in Bleeding Shadows: Stories, Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 69:

     The Christmas monkeys came again this year. The little bastards. They brought monkey poo to throw. They always do. They came down the chimney, amid scratches and chatters and all manner of hulabaloo.

• “hullabaloo, n. (and interj.)”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

From English hullabaloo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhulɑbɑloː/, [ˈhulɑ̝ˌbɑ̝lo̞ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑloː
• Syllabification^(key): hu‧la‧ba‧loo
• Hyphenation^(key): hu‧la‧ba‧loo

hulabaloo (colloquial)

1. hullabaloo, hoo-ha, fuss

• “hulabaloo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023