hoo-ha as euphemism

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Feb 15 18:36:51 UTC 2007


Has anyone anything to say about "hoo-hah" ~= "hoo-ah" <whore>?

Joel

At 2/15/2007 10:26 AM, you wrote:
>It certainly didn't mean 'vagina' in any of its countless appearances in MAD
>Magazine in the fifties (I'm pretty sure) and sixties (for certain), spelled
>"Hoo-hah!" That's an interjection of astonishment or triumph, borrowed I
>think from Yiddish.
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>m a m
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