Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fuss; a disturbance.
  • noun A chortle or laugh.

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  • noun A fuss, uproar, commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha
  • noun slang vagina

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  • noun a disorderly outburst or tumult

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps from Yiddish hu-ha, to-do, uproar, exclamation.]

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Perhaps from Yiddish הו־האַ (hu-ha, "a hullabaloo")

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Examples

  • Some of the GOP's finest doorstops even promised to read the Pledge before election day, even as critics on the Left and Right -- especially the Right -- denounced the faux Contract as nothing more than the usual hoo-ha from the established parties.

    Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010

  • Some of the GOP's finest doorstops even promised to read the Pledge before election day, even as critics on the Left and Right -- especially the Right -- denounced the faux Contract as nothing more than the usual hoo-ha from the established parties.

    Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010

  • I know I have a lot to learn in medical school, but even before I got there, I knew I would have to stop calling the vagina a "hoo-ha" by the time I became I practicing ob/gyn.

    Quick Hit: Beware the Willy Bits - Feministing 2009

  • Not to say, I'd like a large animal to maul me, I just don't want the hoo-ha.

    Scarltanua Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011

  • They can believe the 'scientists,' with all their molten core and fractured crust hoo-ha, or they can believe that God, in His wisdom, has sentenced a race of orcs to inhabit the deep and that they, during times of terrestrial unrest, amass great armies beneath our feet that would unleash upon us the fire and anguish tempered in their hellish crucible.

    Tony Phillips: First Responders in D.C., New York, Encounter Quake's Grim Aftermath Tony Phillips 2011

  • She freaks out about needles, is in denial about the baby actually coming out of her hoo-ha, and feels that breastfeeding is "unnatural."

    Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 6: Bare Neigh-ked Lady Una LaMarche 2011

  • She freaks out about needles, is in denial about the baby actually coming out of her hoo-ha, and feels that breastfeeding is "unnatural."

    Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 6: Bare Neigh-ked Lady Una LaMarche 2011

  • I barely had time to be embarrassed for thinking we were about to meld into some giant glowing cosmic hoo-ha before I noticed that the walking urge had dissolved, and it was time to settle in for the night.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • She freaks out about needles, is in denial about the baby actually coming out of her hoo-ha, and feels that breastfeeding is "unnatural."

    Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 6: Bare Neigh-ked Lady Una LaMarche 2011

  • They can believe the 'scientists,' with all their molten core and fractured crust hoo-ha, or they can believe that God, in His wisdom, has sentenced a race of orcs to inhabit the deep and that they, during times of terrestrial unrest, amass great armies beneath our feet that would unleash upon us the fire and anguish tempered in their hellish crucible.

    Tony Phillips: First Responders in D.C., New York, Encounter Quake's Grim Aftermath Tony Phillips 2011

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