Word of the Day:
brouhaha
What It Means
It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.
Brouhaha in Context
“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...”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from French brouhaha, though its earlier origin is disputed. Possibly from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”).
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