"Hoo Haa" "On the fly" "Stat"
"I need this on the hoo haa" (pron. 'who ha'). Meaning: I need this right now; I needed it yesterday, get moving.On the fly: similar meaning, simple nuance between them.Stat: "I need this stat."...
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oldnavyflop: that sense provided by Roget (kerfuffle, imbroglio, fuss, etc) is the only sense in which I've ever heard hoo hah used. I haven't heard "on the hoo hah" used to mean "in a hurry".I think...
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OP,Could it mean "like a hoo hah" as in, "Make this quickly like your in, or it is a hoo hah" ?? Just a thought.
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Bail up those yankees?!? ROFL. Hell, they wouldn't be able to explain it.That brings up another funny thing. I spent a time in southwestern Virginia (the part that West Virginia wouldn't take). And...
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:-)I'm sure that local meaning of directly has caused many a hoo-hah.
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From hooha.org/hooha/hoo-hanoun, INFORMAL(a case of) too much interest esp. in something unimportantThere was a lot of/a great hoo-ha about the pictures that the paper published, but it was soon...
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"On the hoo hah" is probably just a misdirection of the term. Obviously, Hoo-hah means a comotion, therefore, on the hoo hah has its roots in comotion. So, for one to say, "I need this on the hoo hah"...
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so making it very close in meaning to a case of the heebie-jeebies, a sense I'm told it has also had in Australian slangWhich also may have an anti-Semetic twist. Though this site says otherwise.
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Could be.I might email a friend in Boston and see what she makes of this.
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Quote from:Techtarget.comIn relation to computer technology, "on the fly" describes activities that develop or occur dynamically rather than as the result of something that is statically...
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When you and I say "I'll be over there directly" it means right away, ASAP. But to those kind folk it means "after awhile" "I'll take my time." In Texas, the meaning of directly is probably closer to...
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Is it possible that this usage is related to the curious grunt of acknowledgment I believe is prevalent amongst the Marines? (c.f. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman)
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DARE doesn't list "hoo ha" in any sense as a regional term.
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Here's what AHD4 says on directly as an adverb: adv. 1.In a direct line or manner; straight: The road runs directly north. 2.Without anyone or anything intervening: directly responsible. 3.Exactly or...
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Gosh... thanks for all that input guys.The curious use of DIRECTLY has been tackled. Hoo hah?? Who knows : ) But I did ask some yankee friends and they all use it to mean "right now." Please note that...
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Oh, now that you put it that way...On a Rail or On the Fly Something needed quickly. "I need table 29's food on a rail!" Or, "Give me a well done Ribeye...on the fly!" Also, "On the hoo-hah."From...
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J, now that's some investigation. I cannot thank you enough for this post. Damn.Tim
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jgorman shoots and scores ... directly on the hoo-hah. :-)
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jgorman shoots and scores It's actually because I spelled "hoo hah" the way I thought I read it. So, "Hoo Hah" plus restaurant. 7th link down. It was an accident. Really!spelling it "hoo haa" would...
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