{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 21, 2019-----hoopla

WORD OF THE DAY February 21, 2019

hoopla    noun | HOO-plah     Definition   1 : excited commotion : to-do   2 :  exaggerated or sensational promotion or publicity : ballyhoo   Scroll down for more about hoopla      TRENDING NOW: crosshair feckless emergency national emergency SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   'Obsequious' — Video Word of the Day 2/20/2019       'Broadcast' or 'Broadcasted'?     'Emote' — Video Word of the Day 2/19/2019       'Prestigious' — Video Word of the Day 2/18/2019         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   What did you just call me?! A Quiz   Never be caught off guard     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   In French, the interjection houp-là is used roughly the same way as English's upsy-daisyor whoops-a-daisy, as one might say when picking up a child. (This usage can be found in English, too, in such works as Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons and James Joyce's Ulysses.) When the word was borrowed into American English, however, it was to refer to a kind of bustling commotion, and later, as a term for sensationalist hype. In the early 20th century, another hoopla was in use as well. Playing on the syllable hoop, that word gave its name to a ring-toss game played at carnivals.     Examples of HOOPLA   "Ideas change as data accumulate. If future evidence causes me to change my mind again, that's okay. That's how the scientific method works, always revising what we thought we knew, eventually casting aside the emotional hoopla, and ultimately granting us not a measure of truth so much as a better approximation of reality." — Eric J. Chaisson, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2018   "My wife and I were watching all this [government] shutdown hoopla on television. My wife then said, 'Why don't you serve them meals?' So we decided to extend it out to all of the Coast Guard members stationed here…." — James Gubata, quoted in The Providence Journal, 15 Jan. 2019   Test Your Vocabulary   What tuber's name joins ring to form a word for a ring or hoop of ceramic or metal that is placed under dishes of hot food?   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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