Etymology

coola boola

Today it means: Cool; all right; fine. Full definition →

Irish ruaille buaille
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromruaille buaille
  2. English todaycoola boola

Reduplication of cool, influenced by Irish English ruaille buaille (“commotion”), from Irish ruaille buaille.

Words from the same roots

Irishruaille buaille all →

ruaille buaille

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