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.
  1. 1.

    A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.

    可数 不可数

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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