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- noun dated A
commotion .
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The hubbub and _hooroosh_ got up, and the King ordhered the ball to be stopped, and had Teddy taken pris'ner, and Billy and Jack ordhered away out of the kingdom.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896
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"What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e'en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 119
July 31, 2008