tatterara

== English == === Alternative forms === tattarara, tatarara === Etymology === From Irish tatarara. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tætəˈɹɑːɹɑː/ (Ireland) IPA(key): [tæt̪əˈɹɑːɹɑː] === Noun === tatterara (plural not attested) (Ireland, dated) commotion, noise; fuss, bother 1976 The Recorder (American Irish Historical Society) Vol.37, p.37: Thus it was in Belfast, where a publisher invited the most terrible tatterara in the Spring of 1976 by publishing a very slim volume, "Best Belfast Jokes" under the rather original imprint Minnie-Ha-Ha Press. 1991 Bryan MacMahon [translation from the Irish of Peig Sayers] Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island →ISBN (Syracuse University Press), p.58: Very soon I heard the tatterara coming up the road. 'They're coming!' I said and I was all agog.