brouhaha
Syllables: brou·ha·haUK/ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː//ˈbruˌhɑˌhɑ/
brouhaha noun: a stir; a fuss or uproar.
Noun
brouhaha (plural brouhahas)
- A stir; a fuss or uproar.
- It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.
- For as they were maneuvering the cylinder onto a dolly, it split and dumped one ton of chlorine trifluoride onto the floor. It chewed its way through twelve inches of concrete and dug a three-foot hole in the gravel underneath, filled the place with fumes which corroded everything in sight, and, in...1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 74
brouhaha meaning in Urdu, Arabic and Persian
brouhaha in Urdu
- قہقہہ, ٹھٹھا
brouhaha in Arabic
- fuss, uproar
- عَجِيج ʕajīj, ضَجِيج ḍajīj, هَرْج harj
brouhaha in Persian
- fuss, uproar
- همهمه، غوغا
Examples of brouhaha in a sentence
- Civil Defense turned out, and started to evacuate the neighborhood, and to put it mildly, there was quite a brouhaha before things quieted down.1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New...
- Talk, it's only talk / Babble, burble, banter / Bicker, bicker, bicker / Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo / It's only talk / Back talk1981, “Elephant Talk”, in Discipline, performed by King Crimson:
- What's all the fanfare, what's the to do / We're known to bring the hullabaloo / On stage or at the spa / Guaranteed we bring the brouhaha / ‘Cause it's a brouhaha1999, “The Brouhaha”, in Hello Nasty, performed by Beastie Boys:
- Rousseau, a senior member of the Europe Écologie-Les Verts party, said in an interview that she was surprised by the sizzling brouhaha.2022 September 5, Roger Cohen, “Of Barbecues and Men: A Summer Storm Brews Over Virility in France”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Synonyms of brouhaha
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Forms of brouhaha
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Origin of brouhaha
Borrowed from French brouhaha, though its earlier origin is disputed. Possibly from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”).
Questions about brouhaha
- What does brouhaha mean?
- Brouhaha means a stir; a fuss or uproar.
- What is brouhaha in Urdu?
- Brouhaha in Urdu is قہقہہ, ٹھٹھا. See Brouhaha meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use brouhaha in a sentence?
- Civil Defense turned out, and started to evacuate the neighborhood, and to put it mildly, there was quite a brouhaha before things quieted down.
- What part of speech is brouhaha?
- Brouhaha is a noun.
- How do you pronounce brouhaha?
- Brouhaha is pronounced /ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of brouhaha?
- The plural of brouhaha is brouhahas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: brouhaha (page history and authors); brouhaha (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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