hoo-ha

plural hoo-has · alternative hoohaa · alternative hoohar · alternative hoo-haa · alternative hoo-har · alternative hoo-hah · alternative hoohah

1. countableuncountableA fuss, an uproar, a commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.

   There was a big hoo-ha about it in the papers, and then the world completely forgot the matter.

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   Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.

   2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up

2. countableeuphemisticslanguncountableThe vagina, the vulva.

   Did that make her a good judge of character, or a fool who was letting her hoo-ha do her thinking for her?

   2009, Linda Howard, Burn, page 242

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   She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.

   2009, Lexi Ryan, Stilettos, Inc., page 163

   His mother later expressed disappointment that she'd been wrong, but by then, Belinda had a butterfly on her hoo-ha.

   2010, Dee Tenorio, All Or Nothing, page 54

   Tara Davis-Woodhall, an American who placed sixth in the long jump at the Tokyo Games and took silver at last year’s world championships, reacted with equal parts humor and horror, commenting: “Wait my hoo haa is gonna be out.”

   2024 April 13, Tara Davis-Woodhall, quotee, “‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN