hooley

/ˈhuːli/

Etymology

The etymology of sense 1 (“noisy celebration or party”) is unknown. Sense 2 (“strong wind”) is possibly from one of the following: * Borrowed from Orkney Scots hool(an) (“strong wind”) + English -ie (diminutive suffix). Hoolan is derived from Norn (unattested), from Old Norse ýlun (“howling, wailing”), from ýla (“to howl”) (ultimately onomatopoeic) + -un (suffix forming nouns). * From sense 1.

hooley means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

name

A surname.
A small village in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2856).

noun

A noisy celebration or party; also, an evening of traditional music and dance.“At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe.”
Chiefly in the form to blow a hooley: a strong wind; a gale.“It’s blowing a hooley out there.”