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Uproar. Irish pullatue, a coronach or crying together at funerals. (See Hurly-burly.)
“All this the poor ould creathure set up such a pullalue, that she brought the seven parishes about her.”—Dublin and London Magazine (Loughleagh), 1825.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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