"philliloo" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: philliloos [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} philliloo (plural philliloos)
  1. (Ireland) A row or disturbance. Tags: Ireland
    Sense id: en-philliloo-en-noun-~RAxwh5k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Irish English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1842, Joseph Thomas J. Hewlett, Poetry for the Million, page 31:",
          "text": "They talk, they laugh, they dance, they make a row — / Kick up a philliloo.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, Joseph Barnard, Among the gods, and other poems, page 101:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Helen Lawrenson, Latins are Still Lousy Lovers, page 69:",
          "text": "Dubious as this charge sounded, it added to the general philliloo.",
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        "A row or disturbance."
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        "(Ireland) A row or disturbance."
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