hallabaloo

== English == === Noun === hallabaloo (plural hallabaloos) Alternative spelling of hullabaloo (“noise or uproar”). === References === James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALLABALOO”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology, 1876 == Swedish == === Alternative forms === hallaballo hallaballoo hallabalo === Etymology === === Noun === hallabaloo (colloquial) hullabaloo; uproar. a very noisy and chaotic situation. a feeling of anger or arousal in the general population (slang, rare) hi, howdy ==== Synonyms ==== kalabalik (1.1) (a situation on the verge of getting out of control; also: about e.g. playing and shouting children) liv (1.1) (familiar; somewhat milder than kalabalik) uppståndelse (1.1, 1.2) (formal: the typical word to be heard on the news) folkstorm (1.2) (in tabloid papers) protest (1.2) (very formal, to be found in environments of bureaucracy)