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Hullabaloo vs Clamour - What's the difference?

hullabaloo | clamour | Related terms |

Hullabaloo is a related term of clamour.


As nouns the difference between hullabaloo and clamour

is that hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss while clamour is .

As a verb clamour 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 *

    clamour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (US spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Chaucer (Wife of Bath's Tale)
  • *:Ffor which oppression was swich clamour
  • * Shakespeare (Love's Labours Lost)
  • *:Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
  • * Addison
  • *:Here the loud Arno's boist'rous clamours cease.
  • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To salute loudly.
  • * Milton
  • The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.
  • (obsolete) To stun with noise.
  • * Bacon
  • Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
  • (obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
  • (Bishop Warburton)

    Derived terms

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