different between hullabaloo vs clamour

English

Etymology

Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (“used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers”), hilloa, hullo (“variants of hello”), and similar words.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?l?b??lu?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?l?b??lu/, /?h?l?b??lu/
• Hyphenation: hul?la?ba?loo

Noun

hullabaloo (plural hullabaloos)

1. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: ado, hype, to-do; see also Thesaurus:commotion

Alternative forms

• hallabaloo
• hellaballoo (rare)
• hullaballoo

Translations

Verb

hullabaloo (third-person singular simple present hullabaloos, present participle hullabalooing, simple past and past participle hullabalooed)

1. (intransitive) To make a commotion or uproar.

Translations

References

Further reading

• hullabaloo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• clamor (US spelling)

Etymology

From Latin cl?mor (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• Rhymes: -æm?(r)

Noun

clamour (countable and uncountable, plural clamours)

1. British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
   • c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost

     Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.

Verb

clamour (third-person singular simple present clamours, present participle clamouring, simple past and past participle clamoured)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
2. (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel

     Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Warburton to this entry?)

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman clamour, from an earlier clamur, from Latin clamor

Noun

clamour (plural clamours)

1. shout; cry; clamor

Synonyms

• crie, crye

Old French

Noun

clamour f (oblique plural clamours, nominative singular clamour, nominative plural clamours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of clamur

   querele oie ne pleinte ne clamour