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Hullabaloo vs Caterwauling - What's the difference?

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Hullabaloo is a related term of caterwauling.


As nouns the difference between hullabaloo and caterwauling

is that hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss while caterwauling is a sound that caterwauls.

As a verb caterwauling is

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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 *

    caterwauling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that caterwauls.
  • * Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!
    • Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd rather hear the old barn door at home squeak any day.