different between hullabaloo vs cacophony

English

Etymology

Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (“used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers”), hilloa, hullo (“variants of hello”), and similar words.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?l?b??lu?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?l?b??lu/, /?h?l?b??lu/
• Hyphenation: hul?la?ba?loo

Noun

hullabaloo (plural hullabaloos)

1. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: ado, hype, to-do; see also Thesaurus:commotion

Alternative forms

• hallabaloo
• hellaballoo (rare)
• hullaballoo

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Verb

hullabaloo (third-person singular simple present hullabaloos, present participle hullabalooing, simple past and past participle hullabalooed)

1. (intransitive) To make a commotion or uproar.

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References

Further reading

• hullabaloo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kakoph?nía), from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (ph?n?, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k?f?ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??k?f?ni/

Noun

cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)

1. A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
   • 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,

     Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

Antonyms

• euphony
• harmony

Derived terms

• cacophonic
• cacophonous
• castrophony

Related terms

• anthropophony
• cacophonous
• dissonance
• harmony

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