re: #105 The Vicious Babushka

Shenanigans
Brouhaha
Donnybrook

This is the origin for brouhaha that I remember seeing suggested. The idea is that since Jewish prayers at services are not read in unison there is a noisy, garbled din with the phrase “barukh….” popping out here and there. An interesting thought but not universally endorsed.

A brouhaha, from French brouhaha (possibly from a corruption of Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא; barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”),