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Hooley

//ˈhuːli// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A small village in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2856). countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A noisy celebration or party; also, an evening of traditional music and dance. Ireland

    "At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe."

  2. 2
    Chiefly in the form to blow a hooley: a strong wind; a gale. Scotland

    "It’s blowing a hooley out there."

Etymology

The etymology of sense 1 (“noisy celebration or party”) is unknown. Sense 2 (“strong wind”) is possibly from one of the following: * Borrowed from Orkney Scots hool(an) (“strong wind”) + English -ie (diminutive suffix). Hoolan is derived from Norn (unattested), from Old Norse ýlun (“howling, wailing”), from ýla (“to howl”) (ultimately onomatopoeic) + -un (suffix forming nouns). * From sense 1.

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