OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24010

hullabaloo

/ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
algarabía • aspaviento • barullo • descalzaperros • excitación • rebato • rebullicio • revuelo • trapisonda
A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
[…]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.
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📚 verb • entry_id 24011

hullabaloo

/ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hacer muchos aspavientos • poner el grito en el cielo
To make a commotion or uproar.
"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?…
They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
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