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Foofaraw vs Hullabaloo - What's the difference?

foofaraw | hullabaloo |

As nouns the difference between foofaraw and hullabaloo

is that foofaraw is overly excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration while hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss.

foofaraw

English

Alternative forms

*foofooraw

Noun

(en noun)
  • Overly excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
  • Fuss over something of little importance.
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    Quotations

    * 1944 , Time , volume 44, page 15: *: The thumping bands, the badges, the pretty girls and all the time-honored foofaraw failed to charge up the Republican batteries to the sparking point. The great engine just would not turn over — at the start.

    hullabaloo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An uproar or fuss.
    • They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
  • * 1902 —
    • Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo , thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.

    Synonyms

    * ado * fuss * hype * to-do * uproar *