Re: Blowing a hooley

Trond Engen (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
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Prai Jei skreiv:

In some dialects the word "whole" is pronounced to rhyme with "fool". So
perhaps when the wind blows a hooley you don't get a steady gale, you get
the "whole" of the wind at once.

And maybe 'a' is a prefix. "Blowing a-wholly".

I'm now inclined to believe that that explanation is hooley incorrect, that
in fact it's based on a variant pronunciation of "howl" with a nod to
"hell", i.e. one hell of a wind that howls.
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