hoo-ha

Noun

hoo-ha (countable and uncountable, plural hoo-has)

1. 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.2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up, chaos, ferment

2. (euphemistic, slang) The 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?2009, Linda Howard, Burn, page 242
   • She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.2009, Lexi Ryan, Stilettos, Inc., page 163