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Hoo-ha is informal English for a lot of noisy talk or excitement about something that is not really so important. If a small change at school makes parents shout and send angry messages, you can call that a hoo-ha. It is a bit playful and a bit impatient — you are saying the noise is bigger than the thing. People also write hoohah or hoo-hah. It is not for a serious letter or an exam essay. The word may come from hu-ha, a hullabaloo; that is a “perhaps,” not a sure story. Though actually, the sound itself feels like fuss: two little shouts stuck together.
大驚小怪、一陣喧鬧(為了小事吵吵鬧鬧)
組成Perhaps from Yiddish הו־האַ (hu-ha, “a hullabaloo”). The shape of the word is likely expressive — a noise-word — rather than a neat compound of English pieces.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hoo-hanoun/ˈhuːˌhɑː/
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A 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.
- 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.
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slangThe 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?
- She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。