Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a commotion, a row, thus attrib.

1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 460: She finds Poll having a phililoo with him.
1824		J. Wight Mornings in Bow St. 106: When she comed up with her phillaloo botheration about nothing in the world.
1825		T.C. Croker Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1862) 26: Then there was the phililoo.
1854		London Dly News 12 Oct. 3/3: The Queen and her ministers [should] institute a national fillaloo.
1862		Louth & N. Lincs. Advertiser 31 May 2/1: Quite a fillaloo (to use a highly classical and elegant word) is being made about the oirder just issued by the trustees of the British Museum that gentlemen under 21 shall henceforth be excuded from the reading-room.
1872		Glasgow Herald 24 Dec. 4/3: There will be a fillaloo.
1887		‘’Arry on the Jubilee’ in Punch 25 Jun. 305/1: It’s a rare fillaloo and no error, Q.J. is all over the shop.
1896		Era 12 Dec. 13/5: Mr O'Mara [...] held forth like a born orator [...] it was a foine fillaloo.
1923		J. Manchon Le Slang.
1935		Chelmsford Chron. 1 Nov. 7/4: I went to Easterfod Lodge, where they had a big 'fillaloo'.