hoopla

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. countable,uncountable
    — Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night
  2. A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. countable,uncountable

词形变化

hooplas plural

词源

Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.
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