hullaballoo
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hullaballoo (plural hullaballoos)
- Alternative spelling of hullabaloo
- 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or The New Generation, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 234–235:
- […] The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:
- 'Sarah, could you bring me the calendar from the wall over there? Does it say the right date?' 'Two days behind – and small wonder no one tore it off with all the hullaballoo going on. Ever so pretty, isn't it?' said Sarah as she handed the calendar to Jessamy.
Verb
[edit]hullaballoo (third-person singular simple present hullaballoos, present participle hullaballooing, simple past and past participle hullaballooed)
- Alternative spelling of hullabaloo
- 1844, George Carter Needham, Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes: The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation, D. L. Guernsey:
- They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
- 1867, Rhoda Broughton, Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], pages 53–54:
- "Nonsense, child," said my father, smiling. "Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again."
- 1952, Dylan Thomas, “Author’s Prologue”, in Collected Poems, 1934–1952[1], Dent, archived from the original on 5 March 2016:
- Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!
- 2012 October 30, Jessica Redmond, “It was all yellow: Some dude defaces a Rothko in the name of ‘yellowism’”, in Columbia Spectator[2]:
- Twitter broke the news, and soon enough, the media hullaballooed over this latest act of art vandalism.
- 2013 January 8, Rory Carroll, “CES 2013: TV companies hope size and sharpness are the future”, in The Guardian[3]:
- In addition to size, manufacturers hope to attract buyers with added gadgetry despite disappointing sales of 3D televisions, an innovation hullaballooed at CES last year only to flop in stores.