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Thread #123743   Message #3611452
Posted By: Jack Campin
21-Mar-14 - 07:25 AM
Thread Name: What is a mountain jack?
Subject: RE: What is a mountain jack?
Nope. "Holler" = "hollo" which the OED traces back to the 1520s, from a French origin.

"Hullaballoo" maybe (no reason to believe it's related in origin to "holler"), but its earliest sources are from Scotland and Northumberland in the 18th century, and anybody asserting an Irish origin had better show how it might have got there.