E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Hull’abaloo.
Uproar. Irish pullatue, a coronach or crying together at funerals. (See HURLY-BURLY.)
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“All this the poor ould creathure set up such a pullalue, that she brought the seven parishes about her.”—Dublin and London Magazine (Loughleagh), 1825.
