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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--hullabaloo This week's theme: odd-looking words. hullabaloo (HUL-uh-buh-loo) noun Tumultuous noise, excitement, confusion; uproar. [Of uncertain origin. Apparently a reduplication of hallo (former variant of hello), an alteration of French hola (whoa, stop there), from ho + la (there).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "After all the hullabaloo, pre-match hype and endless talks shows on radio and television, the Fenerbahçe-Besiktas derby at Sükrü Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul turned out to be a Big Fat Nothing." Okan Udo Bassey; A Big Fat Nothing; Turkish Daily News (Ankara, Turkey); Nov 21, 2006. X-Bonus I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. -Edgar Guest, poet (1881-1959)

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