hoo-ha as euphemism
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Thu Feb 15 15:26:53 UTC 2007
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.
m a m
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