http://www.waywordradio.org/blow_a_hoolie/ A lively radio program about words and language, broadcast on many NPR stations and heard by podcast around the world. It's more than grammar! Sat, 18 May 2013 23:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.waywordradio.org/blow_a_hoolie/#comment-2678 Steve Selvester Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:23:53 +0000 http://beta.waywordradio.org/?p=10210#comment-2678 The original phrase I first heard was “blowing a hooligan (of a wind)” whilst sailing in mid eighties. Latterly I more often have heard the shortened “blowing a hoolie”.

]]> http://www.waywordradio.org/blow_a_hoolie/#comment-2677 K. Bridle Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:09:41 +0000 http://beta.waywordradio.org/?p=10210#comment-2677 My late friend said it to me during the 1980’s, always about high winds, he was from Thurso in Scotland and I assumed it was Scots.

]]> http://www.waywordradio.org/blow_a_hoolie/#comment-2676 Reuben Woolnough Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:25:07 +0000 http://beta.waywordradio.org/?p=10210#comment-2676 i first used the term in 1986, conversationally. i don’t know if i made it up or had heard it elsewhere; but i suspect the former.

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