Citations:hallabaloo

English citations of hallabaloo

• 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that County, page 162

  Hallabaloo. Anoise — an uproar— a clamour. Hamper. To puzzle, perplex, trouble. " He's sadly hamper'd," means in uneasy, confined, circumstances. A lock hamperd, is when the key cannot be turned or taken out. i Hanbury. The disease to ...

• 1889, Richard Soule, A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions: Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology, page 203

  ... manner, in whatever de ree. Hub, n. Nave (of a идее ). Hubbub, п. 1. Uproar, clamor, din, racket, hallabaloo, HULLABALoo, out cry. 2. Tumult, disorder, confusion, dis turbance, riot. Hubbubboo, n. [Laux] Cry, howl, howling, wailing ululation.

• 1860, Joseph Emerson Worcester, A Dictionary of the English Language, page 701

  )lillon. HflL-Ld-Bii-Léé', n. Uproar; hallabaloo. — See HALLABALOO. Gent. Mag. HULI.'~DD'WN, 0. (Noah) Noting a shi when only the masts and sails are seen in t e distance, the hull being concealed by the convexity of the sea. Sizmnonds.

• 1911, John Trotwood Moore, The Gift of the Grass: Being the Autobiography of a Famous Racing Horse

  "Hallabaloo — hoo — you did it — you! " he screamed demoniacally, and rising on his hind legs, with ears back and teeth glaring, he came at me like a fury driven bear, his great fore feet, steel shod, fanning the air, striking forward like great ...

• 1872, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, page 430

  HALLABALOO. A noise, or uproar. HALLACKING. Idling; feasting; making merry. Hallacks. An idle fellow. North. H ALLAGE. The fee or toll due to the lord of a fair or market. (.Fr.) H ALLAN. The passage or space between the outer and inner ...

• 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya, page 143

  Och! the hallabaloo! Och! och! how you'll wail, When the offal-fed vagrant Shall turn you as blue As the gas-light unfragrant, That gushes in jets from beneath his own tail ;— 'TiIl swift as the mail, He at last brings the cramps on, That will twist ...