Ballyhoo - English meaning

noun

A state of agitation or fuss, especially about something unimportant.

Usage examples:

This is much ado about almost nothing

suffix

Forming nouns such as bravado, desperado.

noun

Delay or unnecessary activity

Usage examples:

Without further ado, i shall introduce tonight’s speaker.

noun

The activity or profession of producing advertisements for commercial products or services.

Usage examples:

An advertising agency

verb

Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance.

Usage examples:

A billboard advertising beer

noun

The business of drawing attention to goods and services

verb

Help or encourage (something) to increase or improve.

Usage examples:

A range of measures to boost tourism

noun

A source of help or encouragement leading to increase or improvement.

Usage examples:

The cut in interest rates will give a further boost to the economy

noun

A push from below.

Usage examples:

This time, ian gave me a boost up, and i was climbing.

phrasal verb

Enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages

phrasal verb

To cause something to increase or become greater

Usage examples:

She does exercises daily to build up her strength., we tried to build his confidence up., the ads b…

phrasal verb

To increase in quantity, or to add more of something so it increases in quantity

Usage examples:

Build up shares/stock/wealth at this time of year, stores are building up stock for christmas., bui…

verb

Move in an energetic and busy manner.

Usage examples:

People clutching clipboards bustled about

noun

Excited activity and movement.

Usage examples:

All the noise and the traffic and the bustle

noun

A pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind.

Usage examples:

This staged cross-dressing was a great shock to audiences used to only seeing women on stage when t…

noun

A state of confused and noisy disturbance.

Usage examples:

She was distracted by a commotion across the street

noun

A sudden, brief period of noise, confusion, or excited movement

Usage examples:

[ c ] there was a commotion outside the embassy.

noun

A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.

Usage examples:

Her cheeks were flushed with excitement

verb

(of a substance) undergo fermentation.

Usage examples:

The drink had fermented, turning some of the juice into alcohol

noun

Agitation and excitement among a group of people, typically concerning major change and leading to trouble or violence.

Usage examples:

A period of political and religious ferment

verb

To change chemically through the action of living substances, such as yeast or bacteria, or to use a substance to produce a chemical change

Usage examples:

He was a central figure in the intellectual ferment of his time.

noun

A small swirling mass of something, especially snow or leaves, moved by sudden gusts of wind.

Usage examples:

A flurry of snow

verb

(especially of snow or leaves) be moved in small swirling masses by sudden gusts of wind.

Usage examples:

Gusts of snow flurried through the door

noun

A sudden light fall of snow, blown in different directions by the wind

Usage examples:

Heavy snow will be tapering off to flurries in the morning., there was a flurry of excitement as th…

noun

A display of unnecessary or excessive excitement, activity, or interest.

Usage examples:

I don't know what all the fuss is about

verb

Show unnecessary or excessive concern about something.

Usage examples:

She's always fussing about her food

noun

Noisy activity

Usage examples:

Hurly-burly of we got tired of the hurly-burly of city life, so we moved to the country.

noun

Extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion.

Usage examples:

His first album hit the stores amid a storm of hype

verb

Promote or publicize (a product or idea) intensively, often exaggerating its benefits.

Usage examples:

An industry quick to hype its products

verb

Stimulate or excite (someone).

Usage examples:

I was hyped up because i wanted to do well

noun

The action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.

Usage examples:

The western arts of marketing and distribution

verb

Advertise or promote (something).

Usage examples:

The product was marketed under the name ‘aspirin’

noun

The commercial processes in promoting and selling something

noun

Activity that supports or encourages a cause, venture, or aim.

Usage examples:

The promotion of cultural and racial diversity

noun

The advancement of someone to a more important rank or position

Usage examples:

[ c/u ] she’s been recommended for a promotion.

noun

The process or fact of giving someone a higher or more important job

Usage examples:

Employees worry that saying 'no' to the boss decreases their chances of advancement and promotion.,…

noun

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Usage examples:

He was charged with distributing enemy propaganda

noun

Information or ideas that are spread by an organized group or government to influence people’s opinions, esp. by not giving all the facts or by secretly emphasizing only one way of looking at the facts

noun

Information, ideas, opinions, or images that give one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published, etc. in order to influence people's opinions

Usage examples:

A propaganda campaign/tool/exercise the report is just a political propaganda tool., anti-governmen…

noun

Notice or attention given to someone or something by the media.

Usage examples:

The case attracted wide publicity in the press

noun

The activity of making certain that someone or something attracts a lot of interest or attention from many people, or the attention received as a result of this activity

Usage examples:

The publicity surrounding the case made jury selection difficult., his speech attracted a lot of pu…

noun

The attention that a person, product, or organization receives from newspapers, television, etc. when something happens that people are interested in

Usage examples:

Get/receive/seek publicity the book didn't get much publicity when it was published., attract/avoid…

noun

Exaggerated or false praise.

Usage examples:

His puffery actually was not far from the truth

noun

The act of praising someone or something too much in a way that is not sincere

Usage examples:

It's usually easy to tell the difference between sales puffery and fact., his book avoids academic …

verb

Exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself.

Usage examples:

She pushed her glass towards him

noun

An act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself.

Usage examples:

He closed the door with a push

verb

Move with force, "he pushed the table into a corner"

abbreviation

Second(s).

contraction

Is.

Usage examples:

It's raining

prefix

(used chiefly in oaths) god's.

Usage examples:

'sblood

noun

A loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people.

Usage examples:

A tumult of shouting and screaming broke out

noun

Noise and excitement, or a state of confusion, change, or uncertainty

Usage examples:

[ u ] mental tumult, [ c usually sing ] a tumult of emotion, [ u ] the garden sits amid the tumult …