2. Noun. A strong wind or gale, as in ''blowing a hooley'' ¹
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Definition of Hooley
1. a boisterous party [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooley
Literary usage of Hooley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors by Convention (1911)
"I suppose most of you certainly are familiar with Mr. hooley. ... Then after
awhile I got to be a gang foreman and they called me Jim hooley; after a little ..."
2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper (1899)
"14 m 14 e rs Horrox—er p..rís the Incorporated Law hooley u. Sinclair Km 10 /
Society, 14 i 4 a Horwich Urhan ..."
3. Prominent and Progressive Americans: An Encyclopædia of Contemporaneous by Mitchell Charles Harrison (1904)
"His parents were Abraham and Lucy hooley, of Macclesfield, England, who came to this
... Abraham hooley became a prominent merchant on Broadway, New York, ..."
4. Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date by Edward Le Roy Rice (1911)
"RM hooley was associated with all that was best in minstrelsy. ... Campbell and
GWH Griffin, organized hooley and Campbell's Minstrels; this company ..."
5. Visitation of England and Wales by Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp (1906)
"Sussex, on Monday, 26 January, bapt. there 1 March 1885 ; educated at Haileybury.
Katharine, born at hooley House, Coulsdon, on Wednesday, 20 October, ..."
6. New Cases in the Court of Common Pleas, and Other Courts: With Tables of the by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham (1835)
"hooley. June 6. was an action of assumpsit for money had and By 4G.4. received for
post-horse duties. At the trial before c< . ..."
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