hoo-ha as euphemism

[Mark A. Mandel]

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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