Hullabaloo vs Rumble - What's the difference?
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An uproar or fuss.
* 1902 —
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
* Charles Dickens
To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
To move while making a rumbling noise.
(slang) To fight; to brawl.
To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between hullabaloo and rumble
is that hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss while rumble is a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.As an interjection rumble is
an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.As a verb rumble is
to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.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 *rumble
English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.
Verb
(en-verb)- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- to rumble gently down with murmur soft
