Definitions
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- noun Ireland A
party ; an evening of traditional music and dance. - noun A strong
wind orgale , as in blowing a hooley
Etymologies
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Examples
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Due to the fact that it's blowing a hooley outside, which woke me from my slumbers, have started crossword before my breakfast.
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It's hollering and blowing a hooley outside, you're warm and snug in bed, someone's delivered a nice cup of tea with the post and there seems no point in shifting.
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It's hollering and blowing a hooley outside, you're warm and snug in bed, someone's delivered a nice cup of tea with the post and there seems no point in shifting.
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"As the Irish say, we'll have a very big hooley when the millionth person gets water," Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal told a media briefing today.
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E.eryone was getting excited, and when T. hooley announced "Mark E. Smith is a dickhead", I think all the fears were confirmed.
FallNews 1997
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This was one of the witticisms of my clever friend, Mr. Robert Martin -- 'Bally-hooley'-one of the very few men who can write a good Irish song, and sing it well, into the bargain.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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"The craic is mighty here," Ciarán says over the din of a hooley.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Richard Bangs 2012
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Lent was tough enough, but to enter it without a good hooley was cruel and if the party was no more than a virtual one, so what?
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Lent was tough enough, but to enter it without a good hooley was cruel and if the party was no more than a virtual one, so what?
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Lent was tough enough, but to enter it without a good hooley was cruel and if the party was no more than a virtual one, so what?
asativum commented on the word hooley
A shindig. Usage and meaning at the link.
July 4, 2008