Did you mean hoo ha?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A fuss; a disturbance: "the subject of this last hoo-hah” ( William Safire).
- n. Slang A chortle or laugh: got a good hoo-ha out of that story.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a disorderly outburst or tumult
Etymologies
- Perhaps from Yiddish hu-ha, to-do, uproar, exclamation.
Examples
“I barely had time to be embarrassed for thinking we were about to meld into some giant glowing cosmic hoo-ha before I noticed that the walking urge had dissolved, and it was time to settle in for the night.”
“She freaks out about needles, is in denial about the baby actually coming out of her hoo-ha, and feels that breastfeeding is "unnatural.”
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“I know I have a lot to learn in medical school, but even before I got there, I knew I would have to stop calling the vagina a "hoo-ha" by the time I became I practicing ob/gyn.”
“They can believe the 'scientists,' with all their molten core and fractured crust hoo-ha, or they can believe that God, in His wisdom, has sentenced a race of orcs to inhabit the deep and that they, during times of terrestrial unrest, amass great armies beneath our feet that would unleash upon us the fire and anguish tempered in their hellish crucible.”
“Not to say, I'd like a large animal to maul me, I just don't want the hoo-ha.”
“Some of the GOP's finest doorstops even promised to read the Pledge before election day, even as critics on the Left and Right -- especially the Right -- denounced the faux Contract as nothing more than the usual hoo-ha from the established parties.”
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“Call and response 1, draconian response 0Much hoo-ha over Match of the Day's innovations following the move to Salford, focusing on moustaches, colour schemes and graphics.”
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“Lily says, 'I'm staring down the barrel of a boulder-headed Eriksen baby coming out of my hoo-ha.”
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“New fun is the kind of fun that happens when Betsy says she wants to be a zookeeper when she grows up because she wants to be with animals and we all laugh and have a big hoo-ha.”
“The Tevez hoo-ha cast Mancini right back into the early days of doubt about City's manageability and togetherness.”
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