Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Great noise or excitement; uproar. See Synonyms at noise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Uproar; racket; noisy confusion.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disturbance usually in protest
Etymologies
- Alteration of obsolete hollo-ballo, probably from holla, hello; see hello. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano”
“At a meta level though, I acknowledge that Princeton-style thinking has a great deal of trouble in seeing what the big hullabaloo is – LOL!”
“Now I will also point out that all this hullabaloo is from a post on the author's personal blog.”
“I'll pick it back up tomorrow after the new year hullabaloo is over.”
“Now that all that hullabaloo is all over, he can resume being a long ball threat and should hit the 30 homerun level one last time.”
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“Wiki has a bit on it if anyone is interested/doesn't know what all the hullabaloo is about. wikipedia:”
“Witness the Guardian trumpeting its great "investigation" over three successive double-page spreads, though accompanied in one case by a curious comment piece, authored by one of the principal investigators (New Scientist's Fred Pearce), correctly pointing out that the hullabaloo is a non-story and changes nothing that we know about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.”
“There is not the same hullabaloo, which is quite right because this was a major incident.”
“He also said he did not know what the "hullabaloo" about missing documentation was, and would have been happy to assist the AG had he been asked directly.”
“You know there's a few words that fascinate me and one of them is 'hullabaloo'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hullabaloo’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Them's fightin' words
brannigan, fisticuffs, donnybrook, lambaste, fracas, fray, imbroglio, melee, squabble, quarrel, skirmish, stramash and 28 more...
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bianca's list of humourous words
hullabaloo, pickle, albuquerque, winkle, plump, cumquat, succotash, guacamole, bulbous, bouffant, jub-jub, poquaque and 11 more...
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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Phonetically Fun
spittoon, cartouche, baboon, squeeze, bamboozle, pojoaque, pilfer, zamboni, elasticity, pantaloon, oodles, bejesus and 6 more...
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Nonsense
Synonyms of "nonsense"
tomfoolery, balderdash, poppycock, lalapalooza, hullabaloo, hodgepodge, gibberish, shenanigans, hootenanny, jabberwocky, gobbledygook, mummery and 21 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Reading Vocab
bleak, batiste, maroon, impiety, aigrette, precious, warrant, ulterior, syllogism, vie, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush and 180 more...
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Reckon's Word List
Turned On
tintinnabulation, talisman, soliloquy, serendipity, quintessential, rhapsody, plethora, myrrh, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, loquacious and 102 more...
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♏ Mischievous tidbits ♏
Just those skew words wherein craftiness propagates.
shenanigans, malicious, feisty, rebellious, hullabaloo, shifty-eyed, crafty, mischievous, ragamuffins, goons
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
word tank
a couple words
logolepsy, nefarious, quintessential, tintinnabulation, serendipity, rhapsody, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, imbue, loquacious, garrulous and 174 more...
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words/phrases I wish I could find mor...
puttin' on the dog, smarty, smarty ha..., murgatroyd, treshstra, puissance, corpuscle, socker kaka, peckish, hullabaloo, salvo, holy guacamole, b..., cascade and 112 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hullabaloo.
singr Musers like the word. Aug 1, 2011
Stacie Brunner i have no idea why... but i can't stand this word. Jul 9, 2011
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009