| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| hoo-ha |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h  hä |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or hoo-hah |
| NOUN: | Slang 1. A fuss; a disturbance: “the subject of this last hoo-hah” (William Safire). 2. A chortle or laugh: got a good hoo-ha out of that story. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps from Yiddish hu-ha, to-do, uproar, exclamation.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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