It's the Word of the Day for July 27th.

Today's word is Bruhaha, spelled B-R-O-U-H-A-H-A.

Bruhaha is a noun.

It's a synonym of both the words uproar and hubbub that refers to great

excitement or concern about something. Here's the word used in a sentence from the New Yorker by

Alex Ross. Ultimately, like much of the population, Mountain Lion P-2-2 seemed to be making

due with what he had. His crawl space sit-in, which dominated the local news

media for a couple of days, felt like a moment of accommodation. In the face of feeble attempts to get him

to move, lights were flashed, sticks were waved, a tennis ball cannon was deployed, P2-2 stared out with an imperturbable expression

that members of cat households recognized instantly. It said, what? At night, once the brouhaha,

had died down, P-2-2 slipped back into the park. The English language borrowed the word brouhaha

directly from French in the late

19th century, but its origins beyond that are uncertain, not the subject of a noisy brouhaha,

but perhaps a little modest debate. What's less arguable is that brouhaha is fun to say, as are many

of its synonyms, including hubbub, Willowah,

hullabaloo, bobbary, and kerfuffle.

Many of these, like brouhaha, tend to suggest a certain judgment that the reason for all the

fufara is a bit silly, or at least not worth getting all worked up about. A dad joke, for example,

might cause a brew-haha, even though it's really no reason for an uproar to brew.

Ha-ha. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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