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brouhaha
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A brouhaha , from French brouhaha , is a state of social agitation when a minor incident gets out of control, sometimes referred to as an uproar or hubbub .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. loud confused noise from many sources [syn: hubbub , uproar , katzenjammer ] a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stir; a fuss or uproar.
Usage examples of brouhaha.
And then there was a lot of brouhaha, if you remember, because a fortnight after the engagement our mama upped and scarpered with her hairdresser.
Something extraordinary to raise such a brouhaha, to get me walking this far this late into the pasture this damp with dew.
The article went on to recount the sexual harassment brouhaha of the previous fall, which had not involved her at all but had made life at headquarters unpleasant for everyone for a month or two.
Albert apparently refrained from Mitch recalled hearing something about a brouhaha in St.
Halfway along Lower Parliament Street a corporation bus driver had ploughed into the back of a Burger King delivery truck and the consequent brouhaha had blocked the traffic both ways from the Theatre Royal to the Albert Hall and Institute.
With Bob Laine, your old tax guy, the night of the party and your brouhaha with Wade on the lawn.
The dear fellow was a little exercised at the notion that you might find both myself, and the whole brouhaha, too much for you.
But the wail was a pretence, for Cass was coming to find that she enjoyed the brouhaha which surrounded her being Countess.
Sir Alastair Cameron, who had made such a brouhaha and nuisance of himself when she had been playing Belinda in The Braggart!
Affleck is intelligent, personable, and very willing to poke fun at his brouhaha of a matinee idol life.
I never connected Lara Spangler to this brouhaha over the Raleigh-Eton, nor did I think much about what her father did there.
And then there was a lot of brouhaha, if you remember, because a fortnight after the engagement our mama upped and scarpered with her hairdresser.
As far as the Catholics and Baptists actually embroiled in the brouhaha were concerned, a couple of murders could not hold a candle to the prospect of a really good holy grudge-match.
From roughly their twenty-fifth anniversary on, the brouhahas never lasted for more than a few hours.
But before he could say it more than two or three times, he had to grab his drawers and run away, because a commotion at the other end of Les Halles told him that the Lieutenant of Police was on his way to make a show of force, and to extract whatever bribes, sexual favors, and/or free oysters he could get from the fishwives in exchange for turning a blind eye to this unforgivable brouhaha.