philliloo

plural philliloos

1. IrelandA row or disturbance.

   Dubious as this charge sounded, it added to the general philliloo.

   1968, Helen Lawrenson, Latins are Still Lousy Lovers, page 69

   3 more examples

   They talk, they laugh, they dance, they make a row — / Kick up a philliloo.

   1842, Joseph Thomas J. Hewlett, Poetry for the Million, page 31

   “[A]n' puss was miowin' fur the dear life, an' slappin' her tail backwards an' forwards, which whin it id hit agin the dog's chaps, he'd snap at it an' bite it, an' thin there was the philliloo.”

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 525

   And iver since thin, on that day, / They kill him agin that same way, / Wid shticks and wid shtones, / Philliloos and loud groans, / In short, there's the divil to pay.

   1874, Joseph Barnard, Among the gods, and other poems, page 101