(Ireland, archaic) A hubbub; a noisy disturbance.
(Ireland, archaic) A hubbub; a noisy disturbance.
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(Ireland, archaic) hullabaloo.
(Scotland) An uproar.
A fuss, an uproar, a commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.
An archaic Irish variant of 'hullabaloo' — meaning a loud, chaotic uproar, commotion, or noisy fuss. While 'hullabaloo' is still in everyday English use, 'whillaballoo' is the older Irish form, carrying the same sense of disorder and noise but with a more distinctly Irish sonic character. It might describe the chaos of a crowded pub, a community dispute, or any situation where everyone is shouting at once and nothing is getting resolved. Evocative and wonderfully Irish in its sound.
A Scottish dialectal word for a noisy commotion, uproar, or state of disorder — the kind of scene that draws a crowd and raises eyebrows. A hubble is what happens when tempers flare at a public meeting, when a party gets out of hand, or when a dispute spills into the street. Less commonly, it also appears in American usage to mean a lump or heap, or figuratively a pile of work, but the Scottish sense of rowdy chaos is the most distinctive.