hullabaloo

häly, meteli, hulina, mekkala An uproar or fuss.

They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.

Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.