Meaning of pillaloo | Babel Free

Definitions

A chorus of sorrow or distress

no-plural, obsolete

Examples

“So you may fancy the pillaloo that went up when the Overseers posted their new assessment on the church door and ‘twas found they’d ruled out no less than sixty voters known, or suspected to be, in Dr. Macann’s interest.”

““Pitch a lady’s luggage into the road, would you?” struck in Jim the Guard, making himself heard above the pillaloo.”

“However in the same breath he talks of writing a poem on the herons at Algeciras “in a few years time”... What a pillaloo!”

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