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Antonyms for hullabaloo


Grammar : Noun
Spell : huhl-uh-buh-loo
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌl ə bəˌlu



Definition of hullabaloo

Origin :
  • 1762, hollo-ballo "uproar," chiefly in northern England and Scottish, perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hollo (see hello).
  • noun uproar
Example sentences :
  • How we're ever goin' to sleep with all that hullabaloo outside I don't know.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Remember how they raised such a hullabaloo when they were sent to the workhouse?
  • Extract from : « The Thunders of Silence » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Whereat I was much ashamed, remembering the hullabaloo that I had raised.
  • Extract from : « A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales » by Amelie Rives
  • I'm not deaf, but I shall be if this hullabaloo keeps on much longer.
  • Extract from : « Jim Spurling, Fisherman » by Albert Walter Tolman
  • He didn't gain much by raising all that hullabaloo in the middle of the night.
  • Extract from : « The Four Pools Mystery » by Jean Webster
  • You wouldn't have made any hullabaloo about it, if he had done that.
  • Extract from : « Held Fast For England » by G. A. Henty
  • The rest of Roswell's narrative was lost in the hullabaloo of command and action.
  • Extract from : « Anderson Crow, Detective » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Such hubbub and hullabaloo as rose on both sides of the curtain!
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • In the hullabaloo of the pursuit the woman had been allowed to escape.
  • Extract from : « The Madcap of the School » by Angela Brazil
  • At luncheon next day we were disturbed by a hullabaloo from the attic.
  • Extract from : « Poor Folk in Spain » by Jan Gordon

Synonyms for hullabaloo

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