phillilooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

philliloo (複数形 philliloos)

1. (Ireland) A row or disturbance.
   • 1842, Joseph Thomas J. Hewlett, Poetry for the Million (page 31)

     They talk, they laugh, they dance, they make a row — / Kick up a philliloo.

   • 1874, Joseph Barnard, Among the gods, and other poems (page 101)

     And iver since thin, on that day, / They kill him agin that same way, / Wid shticks and wid shtones, / Philliloos and loud groans, / In short, there's the divil to pay.

   • 1968, Helen Lawrenson, Latins are Still Lousy Lovers (page 69)

     Dubious as this charge sounded, it added to the general philliloo.