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Definition of Hooleys
1. hooley [n] - See also: hooley
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooleys
Literary usage of Hooleys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"When the hooleys and the HOOLIGANS will retire into private life. When—but the
catalogue of questions is endless. If only the Prophets would favour us with ..."
2. Siberia and Central Asia by John Wesley Bookwalter (1899)
"From these instances, I gathered the impression that Russia would not be a healthy
place for the hooleys of England and the professional wreckers of our own ..."
3. The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places by Patrick Weston Joyce (1871)
"... Donegal, Patrick's hooleys. CHAPTER VIII. SUBDIVISIONS AND MEASURES OF LAND.
AMONG a people who followed the double occupation of tillage and pasturage, ..."
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