Hullabaloo vs Clamour - What's the difference?
hullabaloo | clamour | Related terms |
An uproar or fuss.
* 1902 —
* 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.
(obsolete) To salute loudly.
* Milton
(obsolete) To stun with noise.
* Bacon
(obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
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
.hullabaloo
English
Noun
(en noun)- They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
- 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)- (Macaulay)
Verb
(en verb)- The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.
- Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
- (Bishop Warburton)