hoopla
FREQ #45002
n. 喧闹, 大吹大擂的宣传, 投环套物游戏
发音
US
/ˈhuːplɑ/
词形变化
hooplas
复数
hooplas
别名
hoop la
hoop-la
houp-la
whoopla
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
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2.
A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.
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词汇关系
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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